Tony and his little companion need your help urgently

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PLEASE EVERYONE READ THIS AND HELP IF YOU CAN ... EVEN $10 COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE .

WE ARE TRYING HARD TO GET HELP WITH SSI AND HOUSING WHERE TONY CAN STAY TOGETHER WITH ROCKY BUT THEY NEED TO HOLD ONTO THEIR ROOM WHILST THAT HELP IS PUT IN PLACE ... PLEASE PLEASE HELP ... DONATIONS NEEDED EXTREMELY URGENTLY !!!!...

Please help ... we are finding it difficult to get help for Tony because of his mental health issues , that mean , he sees help as just more stress and worry and he already has more than he can cope with of that . He doesn't even see what is offered as help and then people say they can't help him because he is refusing help offered . This is making it extremely hard to find him the help he needs but it is important he holds onto his room because even as ill as he is , if donations stop coming in he will be in the streets and most likely not survive out there for long ... please all donations will help and please see the update in the updates tab (23rd August ) for more ways that you can help him . Thank you so very much for any help you can give


PLEASE CAN ANYONE DONATE EVEN JUST $10 SO ME AND MY OWNER CAN STAY SAFE ?


Thousand Oaks / Camarillo CA
Hi everyone , it's Rocky here , my owner adopted me many years ago now , even though he and his family had no home themselves . Back then there was my owner , Tony , the old guy .. his dad , and Tony's brother , who had some learning disabilities but was always really nice to me . In fact even though my new little family had no home they always took great care of me and to start with I had a little lady friend too , but she also was old .
There came a day when the old guy wasn't with us any longer and my owner and his brother were very sad . We kind of managed to carry on without him but then my lady friend too just got too old I guess and wasn't with us either . The biggest surprise though was when my owners brother also wasn't there any more and since then its just been my owner and me doing our best to get by .
My owner was very very sad and lonely and I did my very best to let him know I was still there for him . Things got very hard and he became very unwell but always loved me and cared for me every day . Recently there have been times when my owner has had to leave me in our room because he has been so ill . One time some people came in a big van with flashing lights and took him away for several days . Some other people came soon after and took me to a place I didn't know too . I was very scared , the people seemed OK but I didn't know who they were or what they might do and my dad wasn't there with me . As soon as he could though my dad came and fetched me , boy was I so glad to see him . Since then my owner has never been away for long when he leaves me , he says he wont stay again because he knows I need him and he wont let me go back to the scary place .
What me and my owner need is to hold onto our room in the hotel so we can stay safe and off the streets . A friend who has known my owner since before he had me tries to help us stay safe in our room by doing a fund raiser for us . My dad tries his best to find the cheapest hotels to stay in but we are very limited as they all cost so much and one we used to use stopped allowing me to stay there . The hotels will only let us stay in them for so long too and then we have to move to a different one and go back when our time at the other one is up . As you can see from the photos below , now I'm getting to be an older boy myself ... 14 .. I like snuggling up in my little bed under the covers with my owner in bed . The thoughts of being out on the streets is really scary for both of us , I think it might even be more scary than that place I was taken to before . Please is there anyone that can donate anything at all ... even just $10 to help us stay safe ?
If anyone can help my owner says the best way to help is by sending what you can using [email protected] on Pay Pal and if you use the family and friends option then my owner will get the full amount you send , with no fees being taken off .As I said my owners friend also set up this fund raiser for us ...https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx ... when a donation comes in to it my owner puts it towards the cost of the room . It looks like there's a lot in there but its been up for a while now and what comes in is used as we get it , so please don't think we have all that money in the bank .. we don't and can only cover one more night in our room at the moment . If you donate this way the fund raiser site and Pay Pal will take a fee from what you send though . For every $10 sent my owner will get $9 and for that reason there is also a $10 minimum donation on there too . If you want to send less it will still help and you can do by using Pay Pal directly as above instead .
If anyone can please share my post that would also be absolutely great .
Thank you and slobbery Chi licks and lots of tail wags to anyone who can help at all tonight , it truly will be such a lifesaver to me and my owner xxx



Tony really is in such an impossible situation , his mind won't let him trust anyone to give him Rocky back, so he feels he cant let anyone else care for him . His health is very bad and he has very little food and only horrible tasting water to drink himself . He feels constantly nauseous and his stomach gets badly upset when he eats . He can hardly walk round his room with his walking frame and is too scared of falling to go outside . He has constant bad dizzy headaches which also affect his mobility and his ability to think straight and cope with stress . He has other issues like an abdominal hernia ,horrendously high blood pressure and issues with his spine that give him back ache . All this is 24/7 with no let up ... he has tried to get help at the hospital , but they send him back to his room again . All this on top of trying to keep his room covered , making sure Rocky eats every day , trying to go as long himself between eating as he can so it doesn't take funds from the room and trying to get help from wherever he can .


Please scroll down to the stars or see updates tab for the latest updates

(capital letters are not being used as any mark of disrespect or shouting , but because this is a friend who is important to me and I am desperate to try and keep him and his little dog safe and off the streets .. I simply don't want to lose this special friend that is all )

PLEASE NOTE , WHAT IS SHOWN AS THE TOTAL ON THE FUND RAISER IS WHAT HAS COME IN OVER A PERIOD OF TIME AND IT IS USED AS IT COMES IN TO COVER TONY'S ROOM , THAT IS NOT WHAT HE HAS AVAILABLE TO HIM NOW .

This is to help a dear friend and his little dog stay safe and off the streets and together by covering a cheap motel room . Tony is the guy and Rocky is his little dog . He has been through so much and cared for his father and learning disabled brother and little dogs through it all . His elderly dogs have now gone to rainbow bridge and tragically his dad died and a couple of years after his brother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and also died .

Its now just Tony and little Rocky trying to hang on and nothing is easy or straight forward for them . Things are not helped at all by the fact that the hotels don't do weekly or monthly rates so Tony has to pay daily for his room from what is donated as it comes in . The hotels also don't do permanent residencies which means that Tony only gets so many nights before he has to check out for at least 2 nights . This is a very stressful time for Tony as the other hotels cost more , he has no transport and has to get himself , Rocky and all his belongings to another hotel and back again after , the check out time and check in time can vary and leave him with hours that he has no where to go or keep his belongings safe and in the Summer time the hotels often sell out too . All of this is what he has to contend with every 18 days at the moment and he is so very stressed by it all .

Tony has struggled for over 10 years to survive from one day to the next .He finds it so hard to keep going and has lost all hope . Tony suffers from terrible depression and prays every night that god will take him to be back with his family again . He feels so lost and alone without them and little Rocky is so important to him and what keeps him alive when he wishes he could just give up and die a lot of the time .Tony is at the moment trying to get help and he put in a disability claim with help from a doctors practice he joined at the end of last year but has been rejected because of not having worked for a while . He now has to try and put in a claim for the other disability benefit which takes longer to process and needs our help . The doctor has said Tony is not fit for work and unlikely to improve enough to work in the future . An MRI scan has shown Tony has a large hernia in his abdomen and an enlarged prostate , he also has prolonged seriously high blood pressure that the doctor can't get to come down even though Tony now takes 5 different tablets for this , his doctor is very worried ,it has recently led to him having 2 slight strokes which have added to his mobility issues and caused him to have bouts of double vision too , he has issues with his spine that affects his mobility and gives him bad back pain and also has stomach ulcers and repeated bouts of nausea and diarrhoea and severe dizziness which has caused falls .When he had the initial stroke they wanted Tony to stay in hospital but Tony wont go in because of not trusting anyone else to care for little Rocky . When he had the second stroke he was in for 4 days and Rocky went to a shelter whilst he was in and we were working on getting him out when Tony was released from hospital and could go and get him .He also suffers very badly with depression and has severe anxiety and panic attacks and gets very mixed up and confused about things as well . Tony's mobility is so bad that he has had falls just walking across the hotel parking lot and using his en suite bathroom and even just getting to the front desk to pay for his room can be a real challenge for him a lot of the time .

Tony is struggling with what the disability people want from him as they need him to go for an examination by one of their doctors that is quite a way from where he is staying . Tony no longer has any transport and his worsening health issues mean he can't walk far at all so getting around is very difficult for him . He usually has to try and find someone to give him a lift or use a taxi and even going locally like to his PO box or swapping hotels is very difficult . When he goes to his PO box and to go between hotels he has to use a taxi which costs him about $50 each way because they have to wait for him to check in before he can unload his belongings and it takes time to load and unload too and about $25 to go to his PO box . He used to have some friends that would help him with lifts sometimes but they were mostly other homeless people living in their cars who have all moved on now and left him with no help from anyone . As you can imagine when local trips are so difficult getting to this appointment further away is almost impossible for him and a real problem . We are still hoping to be able to continue with his disability claim if he can get to this examination though .

He has also contacted his local rapid rehousing office and left his details . He was phoned back by a social worker but they told him they only help those about to lose their homes or who have some sort of income and that he should go to a homeless shelter . That would mean losing Rocky though and they are not safe places to be, he would have no where to keep his belongings safe and there isn't one close enough for Tony to be able to get to . He also is not good at interacting with others and with his social anxiety he would never cope with being in such close proximity to so many other people he doesn't know .

Very often because of all the stress and worry and Panicking Tony finds it very hard to be able to have a clear enough mind to deal with everything and think straight . Tony needs to keep his room covered as the threat of him being in the streets absolutely terrifies and panics him and he has very bad panic attacks and his fears take over his mind so he cant think of anything else . At times we are only managing to cover his room one night at a time and once hes paid for a night he doesn't have enough for the next one until more donations come in . As you can imagine this is very scary, stressful and worrying for Tony and hes finding it very hard to know what to do .

He is very very worried about keeping his little dog safe and about losing him . Rocky is his constant companion and the only thing that gives him a reason to keep trying and no matter how hard things get Tony always takes very good care of him . Very often Tony will go without food himself but always makes sure Rocky eats twice a day . Tony's health issues mean he really could probably do with going into hospital and having a good check over and treatment , but he won't leave his little dog with anyone else so wont go into hospital either . It is very important that they stay together as Tony would just give up without him .If Tony was to lose his room he would be in the streets and lose everything including little Rocky . We do have someone who has said they will step up and make sure Rocky stays safe if any emergency was to happen , but they are 2 hours away so cant help other than that .

Tony is a very dear friend and I know I couldn't do this without everyone's help so I am so grateful for every dollar we get donated because it all adds up and is what keeps Tony and little Rocky alive and safe .If anyone locally can offer any help or knows of help locally to them please get in touch too .. thank you

YOUR HELP IS A TRUE LIFE SAVER FOR THEM WHEN THEY CAN'T FIND HELP ANYWHERE ELSE .. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE . THE VERY BEST WAY IS TO MAKE A DONATION .. EVEN THE MINIMUM $10 WILL HELP AND GET THEM THAT BIT CLOSER TO HAVING THEIR ROOM COVERED FOR AN EXTRA NIGHT . IF YOU CAN'T EVEN MANAGE THIS AMOUNT YOU CAN DONATE LESS USING [email protected] ON PAY PAL AND SENDING IT USING THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OPTION SO NO FEES WILL BE DEDUCTED FROM IT . IF YOU TRULY CAN'T DONATE , WE KNOW MANY ARE ALSO STRUGGLING OUT THERE , THEN SHARING THE FUND RAISER ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WITH YOUR CONTACTS IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED AND HELPS TOO .THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE
THIS WAS WRITTEN WHEN THE FUND RAISER WAS STARTED .... PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE LATEST UPDATES BELOW WHERE THE STARS ARE



To help everyone understand what Tony's depression is like for him ... please click on this link and read what depression is really like

https://young.scot/information/mind/10-things-peop...


PROOF FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT THAT TONY IS REAL AND THE MONEY GOES TO HIM

Deb Matasci-Siegfried I speak to Tony. I send food to him and he thanks me. He is a real person who has no income and no disability. If it weren't for people who are kind hearted enough to donate to keep in a motel room, he and his little dog would be on the streets, possibly dead from exposure to the weather in his frail condition. Its sad that people think its a scam just because a person is too ill to work but can't get to appointments to get disability either due to no trsnsportation and no one willing to help. I do what I can by helping monetarily but I'm a truck driver so helping transport him is not feasible.










Brenda Perman-Espinoza I just showed this to my boyfriend. We have helped him before when he was staying with the lady with the birds. We will drop off something.

The above is from someone who has met and helped Tony in the past to prove that Tony is a real person and this is someone in genuine need


Katherine-Anne Sage Jill Ashmore, It's important to state that Tony is suffering from Depression. It's his depression that makes him unable to cope with jumping through the hoops of the welfare system/mental health/social services. He is essentially paralyzed from doing anything different..anything outside of his normal routine. To improve his situation he would need someone to act as a sort of guardian ( like a mental house counselor) but it's a catch 22 because he needs to be in the "system" before a counselor would be assigned to him ( and of course all the red tape involved just to get to that point) but getting into the system would require him going outside of his normal routine to jump through the beaurocratic paperwork which is is mentally ( and physically at this point) unable to do.



Catherine Abate-Bent

Tony is in Venture CA area and has had a slight stroke. He needs donations to pay for his hotel room and food and occasional taxi ride. He was in the hospital today, and is out now with his little dog Rocky. He is only 54 years but he is not well. If anyone in that area can reach out to Jill Ashmore she is helping Tony from the UK (England) and is his friend; however it is long distance to care for someone ill, and protect a little dog. Tony took outstanding care of his Dad and disabled brother but now both are dead. He no longer has a car and it is just him and Rocky against the cold cruel world. Please have some charity in your heart and help if you can.

Is there anyone in the Ventura, CA or Thousand Oaks, CA area that can reach out to Tony through Jill Ashmore and offer some emotional support, friendship, foster care of Rocky so that Tony can get the medical care he needs. Rides would help. A dinner box or some food taken to the hotel. Help to change hotels and load his 20 bags of belongings for the transfer. Tony is too weak to do much these days and he is dizzy. He really needs some Christian (or people of any faith) Friends that want to reach out and do a good deed. I have tried to get him to reach out too the church, but it is too late for him to go anywhere. He needs someone with kind hearts to come to him.


To give an insight into why Tony can't find help

Update posted by Jill Ashmore On Nov 20, 2018

This is being said by someone who has worked in the homeless sector , been homeless , runs Invisible People you tube site that gets millions of views and gives a platform to homeless people to tell their stories and gets invited to speak at homeless conferences not just all over the USA but all over the world . The help just is not there and it is even harder when you are trying to get help and hold onto a treasured pet too . A lot of times those living in hotel rooms are not even classed as being homeless , so if those out on the streets , families with young children , disabled in wheelchairs , those with cancer , and so many others out on the streets are not able to find help then how is Tony supposed to ?Mark Horvath12 hrs


‪The reason I’m ranting this morning about the broken homeless sector is because I’m tired of being asked by homeless people or people who want to help a homeless person for a referral and there is not one place to send them where I can guarantee that they’ll actually be helped! ‬

Mark Horvath

I cannot guarantee much in this world, but I can guarantee that NOT ONE of the many homeless people I now call a friend will be housed! NONE! It's like this big game where the homeless industry does a lot of busy work yet very little real impact in ending homelessness happens!What the heck are we even doing hiring social workers and outreach workers when there is little to no housing to get people out of homelessness?I’m not saying people are not working hard. My point is, if you look at the amount of people that get help (very small) and the amount of people that are not being helped (very large) something is wrong.
I know several people that are at risk of death yet the chances of them getting help are next to nothing. That’s not because people are not working hard. It’s not because billions of dollars are being spent. It’s because something is wrong with the very core of what we are doing.
If LA County is hiring thousands of outreach workers and social workers when there is not even close to enough housing for people, something is wrong.there are thousands upon thousands of people helping and billions of dollars being spent. My point is that with all that and it still not working, something is wrong. Very wrong!


UPDATE 10TH SEPTEMBER

AFTER THE NIGHTMARE DAY TONY HAD YESTERDAY HIS FUNDS ARE NOW RUNNING LOW AND I NEED TO ASK FOR DONATIONS ANYTHING YOU CAN SEND WILL HELP .. THANK YOU XX

Hi everyone I only spoke with Tony very briefly today and I am very worried about him . Pretty much all he said was that hid funds were running low and he needed donations to come in again , that his arm was all beat up and hurting him and that he cant do anything and that his head was hurting badly . Then he went and I have not spoke to him since and that is for 8 hours now . I also called the nurse that saw him last week and left a message telling her he is now at Premiere Inn and had fallen twice yesterday and hurt his right arm badly and wasn't able to use his walking frame because of it . I asked if she could call in and check on him and left my email address to give her a way to contact me as I am sure she wouldn't want to call the UK but I've heard nothing . So not sure if she has been to check on Tony or not and not sure how hes managing either . I dont think hes up to checking his bank account at the moment either so not exactly sure what he has but with having to pay the taxi unexpectedly and having had to pay weekend rate at the more expensive hotel I worked it out and he will be running low on funds again and need everyone's help to hold onto his room tomorrow night probably . Please if you can send anything at all tonight it will be needed again and urgently too . Thank you so much everyone for everything xxxx

If you can send anything at all today , even $10 could help keep them safe , please use [email protected] on Pay Pal to send it if you can and choose the family and friends option when you send it , this will mean Tony gets your full donation with no fees being taken from it .
There is also this fund raiser https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx but if you donate that way , for every $10 you donate Tony only gets $9 because of fees being taken off . For this reason there is also a minimum donation of $10 on there . There is lots of information on Tony and Rocky on there too so please do click on the link , or the photo below my post on Facebook and check it out
If you can share the fund raiser on any social media sites you might be on or with any other contacts you have too , that could also help us find people who are able to donate
WE TRULY DO THANK OUR SUPPORTERS FOR ALL THEY HELP THEY GIVE AND THAT HELP IS TRULY WHAT HAS KEPT TONY ALIVE IN RECENT TIMES .. THANK YOU SO MUCH EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU FOR THAT XXX




UPDATE 6TH SEPTEMBER

ANOTHER CRAZY DAY AND DONATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR TONY TO STAY SAFE TOMORROW... A CLOSE CALL WITH ROCKY AND THE WEEKEND STILL NEEDS COVERING ... PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN TONIGHT ,, THANK YOU

Hi everyone ... another crazy day in Tony land and another night covered but only tonight ... funds are still needed to cover tomorrow and Sunday. A big thank you to Katherine , Amanda , A New Leash On Life and Mimi for your donations last night that made sure Tony could cover tonight . He now needs to get in another $200 to cover tomorrow and Sunday though ... so any help you can give tonight would be very much appreciated please .
Earlier on today , about an hour before I was due to go to work , I got a message from Tony saying Rocky had run away again . It was at 5,30am his time and he said as soon as he had opened the door to outside , before he could get a lead on him , Rocky shot out and ran off . As you can imagine Tony was very upset and at that time in the morning I didn't think there was much chance of anyone else being around to help either . I put the word out on messenger though and Brenda saw it and said she would go look for him ... THANK YOU SO MUCH BRENDA XXX . I had to go to work and pray things turned out OK , coming home and straight away coming online to find Rocky had come back to the hotel safely .. thank goodness . Colleen had texted Tony and he had told her Rocky came back . THANK YOU COLLEEN for checking and letting everyone know via chat that Rocky was safe . I think it being so early in the morning Tony had though no one was around and opened the door before he'd got Rocky's leash on ... never expecting him to run away again so quickly . I have told him he MUST ALWAYS PUT HIS LEASH ON NOW BEFORE OPENING THE DOOR ... and hopefully he will see how important that is now . So a very traumatic start to the day for Tony and little Rocky .
With being at work I have not had a chance to call the nurse that went to see him again and have not had an email from her either . I will try and call her again on Monday as I think there will be no one there at weekends . I will be keeping an eye out for any e mails I might get though too . I really do hope she will get in touch and that I can work with her and Tony and get him some proper help .

The important thing tonight is to try and get in what we can towards keeping them safe over the weekend when all the official places to get help are closed . Please if you can send anything at all tonight it will be a big help and sharing is always appreciated , maybe try and get it out in some groups and see if we can get it seen by some new people ? Whatever help you can give is truly appreciated and a big thank you goes out to you all xxx

If you can send anything at all today , even $10 could help keep them safe , please use [email protected] on Pay Pal to send it if you can and choose the family and friends option when you send it , this will mean Tony gets your full donation with no fees being taken from it .
There is also this fund raiser https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx but if you donate that way , for every $10 you donate Tony only gets $9 because of fees being taken off . For this reason there is also a minimum donation of $10 on there . There is lots of information on Tony and Rocky on there too so please do click on the link , or the photo below my post on Facebook and check it out
If you can share the fund raiser on any social media sites you might be on or with any other contacts you have too , that could also help us find people who are able to donate
WE TRULY DO THANK OUR SUPPORTERS FOR ALL THEY HELP THEY GIVE AND THAT HELP IS TRULY WHAT HAS KEPT TONY ALIVE IN RECENT TIMES .. THANK YOU SO MUCH EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU FOR THAT XXX





UPDATE 23 AUGUST

URGENT EMERGENCY

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN ... TONY HAS NO FUNDS TO COVER TOMORROW NIGHT .. DONATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE XXX

Firstly let me say a huge thank you to Maria for keeping Tony and Rocky safe whilst I have been on my night shifts and giving me a few nights when I had very little time that I didn't have to worry about getting funds in to do that . Also thank you to her for giving all of you good people a break from all my constant e mails and posts which I am sure you must all get so fed up of .
Thank you also to Tamra and Mimi for your recent donations and to Grace and Ann for your donations and to Colleen for your help with these .

When I got up today though , a couple of hours ago , I found this message from Tony
You here
Hello
I guess not
Im gonna vein the streets today
2:44 PM
You here I'm gonna be in the streets help me please
Hello
Are you there
Hello
Your not here

and then had this conversation with him ... he has enough tpo cover tonight but then will have about $30 in his account again so needs to get donations in tonight ... his room is costing him $100 tomorrow so we need to get at least $70 in today .
Im here why are you going to be in the streets today ? you told me you had $200 last night
now Im here your not here
5:14 PM
I'm here Help !
Im here too and yes I will help
I'm gonna go in the hospitoal I'm gonna lose rocky
Help!
call.your doctor instead of going to the hospital.
I only got 100 left
and I have told you once I get it out there we will get some donations in
I can't get him better at the hospitoal
I need help
no better to call your doctor the hospital will just send you back to your hotel
did you call Alicia and ask her for help ? did yoh call her yesterday like I told you to ?
I haven't eaten and have no food I'm going commotose
No who ever she is I'm gonna lose everything
call her and tell her all of this .... 8053391122
I'd rather die
I don't know her
no call her she is the person who can get someone to you
she is in charge of the social workers who have been to you before
You call her I need help and the fundraiser please
I'm gonna die
I have no food
8053851800.
I'll go no help here
that is for Sonya ... another person that said she felt they could help you
I'm not gonna lose rocky
Aww just forget it
I'm going
you need to keep trying those 2 numbers and telling them what you are telling me ... if its an answering machine leave a message telling them and your phone number and hotel and room number ... keep doing that till you hear from them ... Alicia call her and tell her all of this .... 8053391122 and Sonya 8053851800.
THEY ARE THERE WHERE YOU ARE AND CAN GET HELP TO YOU IF YOU KEEP LETTING THEM KNOW YOU NEED IT ... tell them in your message that your phone isnt working properly too
they can get help to you without you needing to lose Rocky
I'm not LOSEING rocky never ill die first
I'm dead
again they CAN give help WITHOUT you having to lose Rocky
try calling both numbers
you need to keep trying those 2 numbers and telling them what you are telling me ... if its an answering machine leave a message telling them and your phone number and hotel and room number ... keep doing that till you hear from them ... Alicia call her and tell her all of this .... 8053391122 and Sonya 8053851800.
Im not calling anyone
THEY ARE THERE WHERE YOU ARE AND CAN GET HELP TO YOU IF YOU KEEP LETTING THEM KNOW YOU NEED IT ... tell them in your message that your phone isnt working properly too
they are the ones you need to call to get help ... or your doctors surgery
I'm gonna go in the hospitoal
Help me you not doing nothing
Type a message...

This is what I have posted in the chat groups of people helping me with phone calls , if anyone else wants to help too and see if we can all band together and get someone out to hids room to see him and help him . A big problem is that Tony is terrified of losing Rocky and when they try and help him panics and keeps saying he isn't going to loose his dog and that he wont give Rocky up and that makes those trying to help back off and see him as refusing services so if you help with calls maybe ask them to not let that stop him from helping .. we do have a plan for Rocky if its needed .. and he does need help very desperately .

I need to get in the bath and try and get funds in to cover tomorrow then was hoping to go out tonight but may not now . Maybe we all need to call both Alicia And Sonya and leave our own messages about him needing someone to go out and see him in his room urgently ... that his phone isnt working properly thats why he hasnt answered calls and that he is staying in Premiere Inn 2434 West Hillcrest Drive, Newbury Park, CA 91320, USA room 167

If anyone else seeing this is close enough to him to go to his hotel and help him ... even just get something to eat and drink that would also be brilliant ... just knock on his room door and shout to him that his big sis in England sent you to help him .. maybe if you call Alicia or Sonya tell them to get whoever they send to tell him that too and he might accept help better .

Please $70 is very very extremely urgently needed tonight and anything you can send will help and be a true life saver again . If you can help with any of the above too that would also be really great . Thank you so much everyone for being there at times like this ... I truly don't know what Tony and Rocky would do without your help apart from be in the streets and dead very soon . You truly are the ones that keep that from happening and thank you just seems so little for so much but THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH all of you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If you can send anything at all tonight , even $10 could help keep them safe , please use [email protected] on Pay Pal to send it if you can and choose the family and friends option when you send it , this will mean Tony gets your full donation with no fees being taken from it .

There is also this fund raiser https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx but if you donate that way , for every $10 you donate Tony only gets $9 because of fees being taken off . For this reason there is also a minimum donation of $10 on there . There is lots of information on Tony and Rocky on there too so please do click on the link , or the photo below my post on Facebook and check it out

If you can share the fund raiser on any social media sites you might be on or with any other contacts you have too , that could also help us find people who are able to donate

WE TRULY DO THANK OUR SUPPORTERS FOR ALL THEY HELP THEY GIVE AND THAT HELP IS TRULY WHAT HAS KEPT TONY ALIVE IN RECENT TIMES .. THANK YOU SO MUCH EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU FOR THAT XXX





UPDATE 18TH AUGUST


TONY AND ROCKY NEED $50 TO STAY SAFE TOMORROW NIGHT .. PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP WITH THIS AND COVERING THE REST OF NEXT WEEK TONIGHT ... EVEN JUST $10 COULD HELP.. THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CAN

Hi everyone , , Tony made it to Premiere Inn yesterday although he did have a fall and has hurt his leg and hip . He managed to cover his room tonight which cost him $70 compared to $85 at the other hotel but is $50 short on covering tomorrow night and will need to keep it covered after that too . I have another night shift tonight but need to try and get him this $50 in or he is in danger of being out in the streets again . I will be at home tomorrow night but then have another 3 night shifts so need everyone's help to keep them safe then too . Please can anyone donate anything towards this today so they will stay safe through next week now they made it to the cheaper hotel safely ? Thank you so much for any help you can give xxx
If you can send anything at all tonight , even $10 could help keep them safe , please use [email protected] on Pay Pal to send it if you can and choose the family and friends option when you send it , this will mean Tony gets your full donation with no fees being taken from it .

There is also this fund raiser https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx but if you donate that way , for every $10 you donate Tony only gets $9 because of fees being taken off . For this reason there is also a minimum donation of $10 on there . There is lots of information on Tony and Rocky on there too so please do click on the link , or the photo below my post on Facebook and check it out

If you can share the fund raiser on any social media sites you might be on or with any other contacts you have too , that could also help us find people who are able to donate

WE TRULY DO THANK OUR SUPPORTERS FOR ALL THEY HELP THEY GIVE AND THAT HELP IS TRULY WHAT HAS KEPT TONY ALIVE IN RECENT TIMES .. THANK YOU SO MUCH EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU FOR THAT XXX





UPDATE 16 AUGUST

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP US GET THE LAST OF WHAT IS NEEDED IN FOR TONY AND ROCKY , THEY NEED IT BEFORE THEY CHECK OUT ON SATURDAY .. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE XXX

Hi everyone , just sending a quick one of these out now as I'll be getting some sleep and at work later on . I know most of you over there will be still sleeping but you will hopefully find this later on when you wake or get on line tonight . Thank you to Liane , Violet , Britta and Colleen for your donations last night . We not only covered tonight but got nearly half of what was needed for the hotel swap too ... thank you so much for that . We still need to get in another $120 tonight to get that fully covered and make sure Tony and Rocky get to Premiere Inn safely where prices should be a bit less and a bit easier to cover for them . Please can anyone help us today with anything towards this ? Tony has a reservation but can only go there if he has the funds in his account to cover his taxi and the cost of his room . Please help him by sending him something if you can .. anything you can donate will help and lots of really small donations can achieve just the same as a couple of bigger ones , if enough people send at least something . Thank you so much for any help you are able to give today , it truly does mean so very much to us and we can never thank any of you enough for the support you give xxxx

If anyone can donate the best way is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal making sure to choose the family and friends option . This will mean you can send whatever you can afford ... every dollar really does count and Tony will get the full donation you send go into his bank account straight away .

There is also this fund raiser https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx but if you donate that way , for every $10 you donate Tony only gets $9 because of fees being taken off . For this reason there is also a minimum donation of $10 on there . There is lots of information on Tony and Rocky on there too so please do click on the link , or the photo below my post on Facebook and check it out

If you don't have Pay Pal and are struggling to donate the other 2 ways , then you can use this fundraiser too ...https://www.facebook.com/donate/714185252351369/ . If you donate this way though it takes a while to go into Tony's account so it won't help him cover tomorrow but will help on a date in the near future and will still be needed then as help is not going to happen overnight .

If you can share the fund raiser on any social media sites you might be on or with any other contacts you have too , that could also help us find people who are able to donate

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING ALL OF YOU AND PLEASE I REALLY DO MEAN THAT ANYTHING YOU CAN DONATE , NO MATTER HOW SMALL , WILL HELP TONIGHT THANK YOU XXXX




UPDATE 15TH AUGUST

PLEASE EVERYONE READ THIS TONIGHT AND HELP IF YOU CAN ... EVEN $10 COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE . HELP URGENTLY NEEDED TONIGHT SO TONY AND ROCKY WILL BE SAFE TOMORROW .. THEY
STILL NEED $60 TO COVER THEIR ROOM AND AS ILL AS TONY IS , THEY WILL STILL BE IN THE STREETS WITH NOTHING AND NO HELP IF THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN .. THANK YOU XX

Hi everyone , thank you to Mimi , Tamra, Demetra and Jeanie for your donations over the last few days that have helped Tony and Rocky stay safe up to now this week . He was able to cover tonight but only has $40 in his account towards tomorrow which is going to cost him $105 . He paid $82 for tonight though and says the prices he told me include taxes so it looks like prices might be coming down a bit at last . He has a reservation at Premiere Inn too on Saturday which is normally even cheaper too ... so fingers crossed things might get a little better for a week or two . After that though , in 2 weeks time its another holiday weekend so they will probably go up again for that . Soon after that weekend Tony will have to swap hotels again too . He should be able to stay till after the holiday though if he gets his full 18 nights there .

Please everyone tonight we need to try and get in at least the other $60 to cover his room tomorrow night and after that he will need the money to cover the taxi and his first night at Premiere Inn ... both of them could be between $80 and $100 each ;... so donations are really needed tonight again . Please can anyone else donate anything at all to make sure Tony and Rocky can cover tomorrow . After tonight I will have very limited tome to get online for about a week ... I have night shifts at work Friday , Saturday , Sunday and then Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday too ... so very little time for anything other than work and sleep . Please I am really going to need everyone's help again during this time .. and dread to think how worked up , stressed out and really scared Tony is going to be . There is a team of us working very hard to get Tony help but with Tony's circumstances and the very limited help available and so many in need it is proving very difficult , but we are trying hard . Please help if you can as much as you can during this next week or so whilst I can't be here much , your help will be very desperately needed . Thank you so much for all the help and support you have given and for any help you are able to give over the next few days xxx

If anyone can donate the best way is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal making sure to choose the family and friends option . This will mean you can send whatever you can afford ... every dollar really does count and Tony will get the full donation you send go into his bank account straight away .

There is also this fund raiser https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx but if you donate that way , for every $10 you donate Tony only gets $9 because of fees being taken off . For this reason there is also a minimum donation of $10 on there . There is lots of information on Tony and Rocky on there too so please do click on the link , or the photo below my post on Facebook and check it out

If you don't have Pay Pal and are struggling to donate the other 2 ways , then you can use this fundraiser too ...https://www.facebook.com/donate/714185252351369/ . If you donate this way though it takes a while to go into Tony's account so it won't help him cover tomorrow but will help on a date in the near future and will still be needed then as help is not going to happen overnight .

If you can share the fund raiser on any social media sites you might be on or with any other contacts you have too , that could also help us find people who are able to donate

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING ALL OF YOU AND PLEASE I REALLY DO MEAN THAT ANYTHING YOU CAN DONATE , NO MATTER HOW SMALL , WILL HELP TONIGHT THANK YOU XXXX







UPDATE 4TH AUGUST

URGENT , NOTHING CAME IN LAST NIGHT AND TONY NEEDS $50 TO COVER TOMORROW , ALSO PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP US GET FUNDS IN TO GET TONY TO THE CHEAPER HOTEL ... AND KEEP THIS WEEK IN HIS ROOM COVERED ... THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE XX

Hi everyone , we managed to cover the crazy prices Tony is having to pay at where he is now over the weekend , but I feel we have to try and get him back to Premiere Inn if we can before next weekend where it should cost less . It's a vicious circle though because he needs to keep hold of his room till we can get him there and that uses up all his funds so he has nothing left to get there with . At the moment he still needs another $50 to cover his room tomorrow and will have to pay about $75 probably to someone to take him to the other hotel and help him with all his belongings as hes in Camarillo not Thousand Oaks . Obviously if we can find someone willing to do it for less or even free that would be amazing . Another problem too is he needs whoever helps him to help with his belongings and when hotels are sold out and the cleaners don't arrive till 11 am its very difficult to get an early check in ... and he has to check out of where he is by 11 am .That is why he ended up where he is now because there weren't any rooms available at Premiere Inn till later in the day. He also needs a ground floor room too as he can't do stairs with his poor mobility issues . Yes its a bit like mission impossible again I know but we will be trying hard I promise and need your help to make sure Tony has the funds to cover it when we can get it in place .
I will also be calling the person who has said they will try and find him help and his other social worker again too and really stress to them how bad things are if I can get to speak with them . Tony well hes given up all hope of being able to keep going , is struggling to even eat and getting very weak , if anyone can help with that it would be a big help , and just keeps saying its over and is getting to the stage where he runs to the hospital again because its all too much to cope with and its his place to run for help when everything gets too much .
Right now he needs to get in at least $50 to cover his room tomorrow and until we can get something worked out to get him back there is having to pay $120 for his room until we can get him moved . Its crazy I know , but there really is nothing Tony can do .. he cant control what they tell him he has to pay , and has no other way to stay off the streets. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN TODAY ... thank you so much xxxxx

Please if anyone can still donate anything today Tony desperately needs to get tomorrow covered asap and I have very little time online tomorrow because of work again so really do need to get donations in tonight . If you are able to send anything please send it as usual using [email protected] on Pay Pal and choosing the family and friends option when you send it .
there are also these fund raisers but a fee will be taken off when you donate this way and the Facebook one takes longer to get there but may be a way you can help if you don't have pay pal
https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx
https://www.facebook.com/donate/714185252351369/

please also keep sharing this post ... if you can copy and paste the text into your post that would help as it doesn't always share the information automatically

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE WHO PLAYED A PART IN KEEPING TONY AND ROCKY SAFE THROUGH THIS WEEKEND AND TO EVERYONE ELSE FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE TODAY





UPDATE 2ND AUGUST


EXTREMELY URGENT EMERGENCY .... TONY HAS NOTHING YET TOWARDS COVERING TOMORROW ( SATURDAY ) AND NEEDS TO PAY FOR IT TONIGHT TO STAY SAFE ... PLEASE PLEASE HELP ... DONATIONS NEEDED EXTREMELY URGENTLY !!!!

Hi everyone ... this is extremely desperate and an extreme emergency ... please help if you can . Last night we only had one donation which was just enough to mean Tony could cover tonight ( Friday ) . It does mean though that he has nothing at all left towards covering the $140 needed for tomorrow night . Yes I know its a lot to pay out but he needed a place to go when the cheaper hotel did not have any rooms available .. we are going to try and get him to that hotel again but cant do anything right now as the hotel is sold out ... this one is the next cheapest he can stay in . With them being sold out , to hold onto his room he needs to pay for it in advance , tonight , so needs to get donations in urgently asap . Please can you send anything at all as soon as you can so Tony can get tomorrow night covered and paid for ? As you can imagine Tony is going out of his mind with worry and having uncontrollable panic attacks and terrified our only hope is that our supporters will come through for him again like so many tomes before .
On a better note , we did have a bit better luck trying to find more long term help for them . Someone from an agency that works with the homeless did a over the phone interview yesterday and has said to one of our helpers they feel they can help him continue with his SSI claim , find him some housing solution , keep him together with Rocky and will allocate one of their social workers to him to help with all of this . Now this is very early stages ... and could take time to get in place and could still go no where , BUT it is a start and could be promising . Very important for this though is that Tony is find able and contactable and can cope with what they need him to do . If he loses his room He will not have a place to charge his phone so will lose touch with everyone , no one will know where he is and he will be in an even worse state mentally , physically and emotionally than he is in now and will definitely not cope with anything . It is really really important he stays safe in his room for any help to be put in place and we are his only hope of doing that ... please help if you can today ... this is so extremely urgent ... Thank you xxx

If you are able to donate anything at all please send it as usual using [email protected] on Pay Pal and choosing the family and friends option when you send it .

there are also these fund raisers but a fee will be taken off when you donate this way and the Facebook one takes longer to get there but may be a way you can help if you don't have pay pal

https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx

https://www.facebook.com/donate/714185252351369/

please also keep sharing this post ... if you can copy and paste the text into your post that would help as it doesnt always share the information automatically

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING EVERYONE

OUR AMAZING SUPPORTERS HAVE BEEN THERE FOR TONY AND ROCKY SO MANY TIMES BEFORE WHEN THEY HAVE REALLY NEEDED IT AND WE CAN NEVER THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THAT . I AM PRAYING HARD THAT THEY CAN COME THROUGH FOR THEM AGAIN TONIGHT AND KEEP THEM SAFE WHILST I AM AWAY AT WORK ON ANOTHER NIGHT SHIFT . THANK YOU SO VERY VERY VERY MUCH FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE WITH THIS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX



UPDATE 31ST JULY

PLEASE READ ... URGENT HELP NEEDED .. ANOTHER CRAZY HOTEL SWAP TODAY THAT DIDN'T GO AS HOPED ... ITS USED MOST OF TONY'S FUNDS UP PLEASE CAN ANYONE ELSE HELP WITH A DONATION TONIGHT .. THANK YOU XX

Hi everyone , another very confusing mixed up day today trying to keep Tony safe and just when you think yes we gonna do this everything goes wrong . Thank you so much Tamra and Liane for your donations last night , Tony is getting very mixed up about what he has in his account and at one point it seemed your donations were pretty much all he had in there so thank god you were able to send what you did . From what he had told me before I did my post last night he had as much as was donated in his account before donations came in and needed $100 more to be sure he stayed safe . When I spoke to him this morning though he said no he didn't have what I was telling him in his account and he only had $10 more than was donated last night . He insisted he had called his bank and that was all that he had ... OH SHIT I thought ... what the heck do we do now ... he was also saying that he didn't have a reservation at Premiere Inn and he didn't know if he would get into a room there because they were saying they were sold out .

He went to Premiere Inn though , because they are close and cheapest , but they couldn't allocate him a room till later on and he needed the guy who took him to help with his belongings as he can hardly walk using his frame let alone carry bags and boxes . He had no choice but to try a different hotel and went to the Motel 6 in Camarillo ... not as cheap and further away but he needed to get in a room straight away as the guy helping him couldn't wait till later on . His room there cost him $100 tonight and by the time he had done the taxi cost him around that too . I still am not sure how he covered this but I am thinking that he must of had what he told me last night in his account rather than what he was saying this morning or he wouldn't of been able to cover it .

That does still mean though that he can hardly cover tomorrow and I start my night shifts tomorrow night too . God knows what it's going to be there on Friday and Saturday but if we can keep him safe this weekend then maybe we can get him back to Premiere Inn before the following one where prices are cheaper . I will certainly try for that and we are still trying to reach all those places for help too but getting the same problem .. answer machines and no one calling back . I'm afraid Tony still only has us and the fund raiser , your donations are a real life saver for him and desperately needed again to cover another crazily priced weekend . Please ... I know its crazy prices and hard to cover and I wont have much time but please please can we keep them safe ? Thank you so much for being there again for us and for any help you can give tonight xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Please if you can help with a donation tonight the best way to do this is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal and send it using the family and friends option so no fees will be taken off what you send . By donating this way you can also send whatever amount you can afford and every dollar received will help Tony and Rocky .
There is also this fund raiser that you can use to donate , but fees will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx . For this reason there is also a minimum donation on there of $10 too .
Sharing the above fund raiser with all your contacts and wherever you can on social media helps get it seen and helps us find new people to donate and is always appreciated too .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING XXXX




UPDATE 30TH JULY

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP TONIGHT , TONY AND ROCKY GOING TO SWAP HOTELS TOMORROW BUT NEED ANOTHER $100 TO COVER THE COST ... PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP US WITH THIS TONIGHT ?

Hi everyone , thank you to Audra for your donation today and to Susan for your donation to the fund raiser on Facebook too . That donation won't be in Tony's bank for about a week though as they take longer to process so that one is really to reach people I can't tag in my normal posts and for those like Susan without Pay Pal to use . It is still best for donations still to be made directly to Pay Pal as they go straight into Tony's bank that way . Tonight we need to try and get in another $100 if we can so Tony can get to the other hotel tomorrow and know he has a couple of nights covered when he gets there too .

As already stated above Tony is going to try and get back to Premiere Inn , where prices might be slightly less , tomorrow . When he gets there he will be paying $80 a night plus taxes and a bit more at the weekend . This is still a bit less than he has been paying where he is at the moment though . After being let down badly last time and all the stress and worry it caused , Tony wants to make his own arrangements to get there but has asked if I can get in another $100 so he knows he will have funds to cover the hotel swap . PLease is there anyone out there who can help with this tonight ? Thank you so much if you can , it will be good for us all if we can get this done and sorted out tomorrow xxx

Please if you can help with a donation tonight the best way to do this is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal and send it using the family and friends option so no fees will be taken off what you send . By donating this way you can also send whatever amount you can afford and every dollar received will help Tony and Rocky .
There is also this fund raiser that you can use to donate , but fees will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx . For this reason there is also a minimum donation on there of $10 too .
Sharing the above fund raiser with all your contacts and wherever you can on social media helps get it seen and helps us find new people to donate and is always appreciated too .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING XXXX




UPDATE 29TH JULY

DETAILS OF THE PLACES WE ARE TRYING FOR HELP , TONY STAYED SAFE THIS WEEKEND .. THANK YOU .. WE NOW NEED TO COVER THE REST OF THE COMING WEEK AND HE NEEDS TO SWAP HOTELS AGAIN TOO PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN THANK YOU XX

Hi everyone ... huge thank you to Maria who donated and kept Tony and Rocky safe all weekend , and also to Mimi , Tamra and Britta for your donations too . Tony will have enough left to cover tomorrow and get some food but will need to get donations in to cover Tuesday . I have had very limited time online as have just done 2 night shifts , so thank you so much Maria for keeping Tony and Rocky safe . Im off now till Thursday , but then have 3 night shifts in a row , so thats going to be very little time online again and On Monday or Tuesday the following week .. 5th or 6th ... just before my birthday on the 7th ... Tony has to swap back to Premiere Inn . After what happened last time too , I know it is going to be so hard to get him to trust and use any help we can find him . I still don't know how genuine that person was last time . It could be that her dad had a emergency that meant she had to take him to hospital , but the 34 e mails she sent me saying she got the $10 I sent to her pay pal kind of make me wonder if it was just someone pranking us . It's so hard when trying to find help to tell if someone will genuinely help or just mess you about . We have that to try and sort out again this week anyway . Also with me being on nights again we need to try and build funds up if we can too to make sure that is covered ... maybe even get Tony moved sooner if we can get it arranged .

At the end of last week we also made many calls to try and find Tony help ... details will be at the end of this update . Most places were recorded messages saying to leave a message and they would get back to you .... which my helpers did but have not been called back yet . To give an example of what we are getting though and why its hard to find help ....
We called an organisation ... they said they couldn't help but gave us a number for a crisis team to try
We called the crisis team ... they said they felt a better team to help him would be whole person care
Whole Person care is the team that the temporary social worker referred him to . The team that have allocated him a social worker who saw him briefly about 5 weeks ago and that he has heard nothing from since . The social worker several of us have phoned and asked to go and see Tony urgently , that I spoke to myself from the UK and told her myself that Tony needs very urgent help and phoned again last week and left a long list of everything Tony needs urgent help with and one of my helpers phoned again on Friday and left another message .

I am going to also get someone else to call the crisis team and tell them about Tony having been referred to that whole person care team and not having heard anything from his social worker and see if they can go see him and speed things up at all with whole person care .

But I hope that shows you that although it looks like there are all these great places to get help from , when you actually try and get that help it is unbelievably hard and you get given the run around or cant get to do anything but leave messages and then no one calls back . I don't necessarily think its the fault of those working in the services , its just that there are so many in need now and they get so many calls to return whilst trying to help so many that its just impossible for anyone to cope at all with everything they are trying to cope with . We will keep trying though and will be making calls again tomorrow .

The important things that are also needed during the next few days though are donations so Tony will keep his room ... he has tomorrow covered but will need help after that and I will have little time online after Thursday for a few days . The other thing too is to get everything in place for the hotel swap ... and if we can do that before next weekend it would save him paying the crazy prices he had to this week . Please if anyone can help to start covering the rest of the coming week by donating something tonight it would be a big help and very much appreciated ... Thank you xxxxx

Please if you can help with a donation tonight the best way to do this is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal and send it using the family and friends option so no fees will be taken off what you send . By donating this way you can also send whatever amount you can afford and every dollar received will help Tony and Rocky .
There is also this fund raiser that you can use to donate , but fees will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx . For this reason there is also a minimum donation on there of $10 too .
Sharing the above fund raiser with all your contacts and wherever you can on social media helps get it seen and helps us find new people to donate and is always appreciated too .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING XXXX

The places we have been trying to find help are

Many Mansions ... 805 601 5370
http://www.manymansions.org/who-we-are/
waiting for a call back

Rain Transitional Living 805 389 3308
http://www.volunteerventuracounty.org/agency/detail/…
waiting for a call back

Anka Behavioural Health 805 653 5121
https://www.ankabhi.org/
They can't help people with mobility issues because of their insurance not covering it . This was who gave us the crisis line
I did speak with a very nice woman at The Crisis Team , they do not offer housing. They treat those with moderate to severe mental illness. They treat the Uninsured as well. It did sound like a program that focuses on Mental illness. She did tell me about A newer program called Whole Person Care . Which she thought sounded more like what he would need. Isn't that one of the places someone called and left messages?

Lutherian Social Services ..... 805 497 6207
http://www.lsssc.org/what-we-do/emergency-services/
waiting for a call back

Human Services Agency ....... 805 385 1800
Homeless Services connects individuals and families seeking help to a network of agencies that provide health care, mental health services, drug and alcohol abuse treatment, temporary housing, and other benefits, and seeks to help clients' secure permanent housing.
The Human Services Agency does not define homeless as simply sleeping on the street. Someone is homeless if he or she sleeps in unsafe or inhumane conditions, a different place every night, or in a shelter, transitional housing, or motel. Because lack of housing usually equates to lack of transportation, social workers meet people where they reside, including homeless camps, to coordinate services with partner agencies that can provide supportive services. For more information, please call (805) 385-1800 (calls will be returned).
waiting for a call back

Mental Health Crisis Intervention Services .... 866 998 2243
because thats what he needs most ... so he can see help as help and can see how help offered will help him

waiting for a call back

Geobal Adult Centre
Could be transported there for meals and day centre .... this could be a possibility to look into . We have to remember that Tony has very bad social anxiety though and added to this will be his circumstances ... that he hasn't been able to shower or do laundry for a start , so its probably going to be hard to persuade him to give it a try . On his mind at the moment will be that he needs to cover his room and to get to the other hotel too and he will see that as more important than eating .

Ventura County Behavioural Health R I S E
One person was told they don't work with homeless people ... another was told this
I called R.I.S.E., and they provide free medical assessment to determine the state of the homeless person and then help process his needs and work with him for SSI.
So we need to check that one out more too .... they did say that Tony has to want it really badly and they wont mess about trying to persuade him if he isn't really wanting it ... so that could also be a problem there ... he needs someone to say to him look you need to do this and stick with him and not take no for an answer and take no notice of all his reasons why he cant ... overcome all the obstacles he puts in the way and get it done . It sounds like these people would not do that .

Harbour House
http://www.harborhouseto.org/
Waiting for a call back

Thank you to Dee , Hope and Colleen for your help with the phone calls




UPDATE 25TH JULY

URGENT EMERGENCY !!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP US GET TOMORROW AND SATURDAY COVERED ... I HAVE 2 MORE NIGHT SHIFTS AND LIMITED TIME SO NEED TO TRY AND GET THEM COVERED NOW ... PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP WITH THIS ? THANK YOU IF YOU CAN XX

Hi everyone , I'm sat typing this outside in the dark because it's cooler , theres the 2 cats out here somewhere with me too and the one from next door .. they just made me jump again lol . The car said 97 F earlier on today when we were out , us Brit's just can't cope with that and none of our houses have air conditioning , so we just melt and try to use fans ... but they just blow hot air around to be honest . Its still warm outside at 11.30 pm ... a lot of trains didn't run today either because the rails were buckling in the heat ... like I said we just can't cope with it over here .
OK back to business , the night before last , when Tony was down to his last $20 the fund raiser did well , but nothing has come in since and Tony has covered a couple of nights with what came in so needs help to cover tomorrow and Saturday now and only has $50 in his account again . Ugh I had hoped it was more like $100 he had left , but just asked him and its just $50 ......... so this is an urgent emergency as Tony needs another $100 to know he has tomorrow covered . He's been having to pay $90 during the week so its going to be more tomorrow and Saturday .
I have been trying to call places for help for Tony and called his social worker andf left a long message of all the things he needs help with and asked her to get in touch with him urgently and marked it as urgent . I actualy spoke to her on the phone last Monday .. about 10 days ago and told her where she could find him and to contact him urgently as he was on desperate need of help ,,, but he heard nothing from her . I also tried calling about 4 of the other places .....but every time it was an answering machine and just leave your brief message and we will call you back . With being in the UK though I don't expect them to call me and don't think they would anyway . I am trying to find some help with making the calls though and will get some people they can call back to call and leave a list of what Tony needs help with . Weather they will actually call back though and weather we can get beyond leaving a message is another thing entirely . We will be trying though I promise you .

The very urgent thing tonight is to get this extra $100 in asap so Tony can pay for tomorrow night . With it being weekend they will be selling out and he needs to pay for it as soon as possible ... tonight rather than in the morning . This is there fore very urgent again tonight and your help is desperately needed again ... anything at all you can send will be a big help ... thank you so much all of you for everything xxxxxxxxxx

Please if you can help with a donation tonight the best way to do this is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal and send it using the family and friends option so no fees will be taken off what you send . By donating this way you can also send whatever amount you can afford and every dollar received will help Tony and Rocky .
There is also this fund raiser that you can use to donate , but fees will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx . For this reason there is also a minimum donation on there of $10 too .
Sharing the above fund raiser with all your contacts and wherever you can on social media helps get it seen and helps us find new people to donate and is always appreciated too .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING XXXX





UPDATE 22ND JULY

EMERGENCY .. PLEASE READ .. NOTHING DONATED AND TONY CAN'T COVER TOMORROW .. PLEASE YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED
Hi everyone , I need to send out an emergency appeal to all of you in the hopes someone may be able to spare even just $10 tonight . Nothing came in last night and many of our regular donors have already donated to cover the weekend . Tony only has $40 in his account and needs to get in at least another $50 to be able to cover his room tomorrow . If nothing comes in again tonight he will be in the streets tomorrow . Please please is there any way anyone can help with a donation tonight , even if its just a really small one ? We really are desperate tonight , and need your help very badly .Thank you so much for any help you can give and all your past support , please when reading this tonight , and
sharing this post , consider if you could spare just $10 to keep Tony and little Rocky off the streets xx

Please if you can help with a donation tonight the best way to do this is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal and send it using the family and friends option so no fees will be taken off what you send . By donating this way you can also send whatever amount you can afford and every dollar received will help Tony and Rocky .
There is also this fund raiser that you can use to donate , but fees will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx . For this reason there is also a minimum donation on there of $10 too .
Sharing the above fund raiser with all your contacts and wherever you can on social media helps get it seen and helps us find new people to donate and is always appreciated too .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING XXXX



UPDATE 21ST JULY

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ... PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP START TO COVER THE REST OF NEXT WEEK , SO WE DO NOT HAVE THE SAME EMERGENCY ? THANK YOU XX

Hi everyone , thanks to donations coming in from Kathleen , Katherine , Mimi , Jeanie and Tamra we were able to cover not only tonight but Monday night too ... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT . Once Tony pays for Monday though he will be back in the same position again , just $30 left in his account . Please is there anyone else that can send a donation tonight to try and start covering the rest of the coming week .

Tomorrow I can try and chase up his social worker and look into a few other things now the weekend is over . I can also try again to get Tony to call his primary doctor and see what else he might be able to try . It gets very frustrating when its weekend and everywhere is closed and you cant chase up places or call them , but we will be back on it again tomorrow ... trying to get help .
Tony continues to be very unwell and says he feels like hes just barely existing and just waiting to die . It is so hard for him to see any other outcome than that and he truly has lost all hope of things ever changing for him . He does have a team of us who are determined to find him help though and who wont give up on him and who are determined that they will find a way out of this for him and Rocky . We Won't give up and I hope our supporters that keep Tony and Rocky safe in their room won't give up too ... because we all need you to continue with that support so we can continue with our efforts too .

Please after my last emergency appeal Tony was able to cover tonight and will be able to cover tomorrow night (Monday ) too , but after that he will be back to the same emergency again if we don't get anything else donated tonight , just $30 left in his account . He is very worried and scared about that happening and trying his best to make the donations stretch as far as he can . If we can get funds in and there's a way to do it then we may even be able to get him back to the Premiere Inn before next weekends more expensive rates are back . That would certainly be good if we could do that , but he would still only have a very limited time he could stay there . After what happened last time too , he would be very reluctant to trust any help we came up with to swap hotels too . It is though , something I would try and make happen if we had the funds and a way for him to go back there .
Please if you can help with a donation tonight the best way to do this is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal and send it using the family and friends option so no fees will be taken off what you send . By donating this way you can also send whatever amount you can afford and every dollar received will help Tony and Rocky .
There is also this fund raiser that you can use to donate , but fees will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx . For this reason there is also a minimum donation on there of $10 too .
Sharing the above fund raiser with all your contacts and wherever you can on social media helps get it seen and helps us find new people to donate and is always appreciated too .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING XXXX




UPDATE 17TH JULY

THANK YOU , WE JUST ABOUT COVERED ANOTHER NIGHT LAST NIGHT , BUT PRICES WILL GO UP AT THE WEEKEND SO PLEASE CAN ANYONE ELSE DONATE TONIGHT .. THANK YOU XX
Hi everyone , a big thank you to May , Britta , Tamra and Graciela for your donations last night , they very nearly covered another night for Tony and little Rocky .. thank you so much for that . Thank you also to everyone else who has donated over the last week or so and kept them safe . We are only managing to do it one night at a time at the moment BUT that one night at a time WILL keep them safe so long as we can all give whatever bit we can when we can and keep covering it . THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF YOU THAT DO THIS XXX

OK now onto the other news , I can tell you that I have made 2 calls myself tonight from the UK to try and progress with finding Tony help . The first one was to the Whole Person Care Team ... I was expecting to get an answer phone , but actually spoke to the social worker who went out to Tony . I told her where he was now staying and asked her to go out to see him or to call him as soon as possible because he is in need of very urgent help . She did say she would look into it ... so we will see if he hears from her . The second call was to the Shop Ahoy Scheme and again I spoke with the guy who runs it . Tony still has trust issues over them holding his food stamp card , so I asked if I could tell Tony he could try it for just 2 weeks and get his card back if he wasn't happy with it . The guy I spoke to said he didn't think the scheme would work for Tony because of him swapping hotels so often and said he was sorry but they wouldn't be able to help him . So that is not going to be an option for him now ... I am trying something else though which might work .

Tony is of course finding everything very stressful with only one more night being covered , barely covering another night with what is donated and the prices about to go up on Friday and Saturday . He even asked me earlier on today to see if I could speak with his social worker and get her out to him . What he needs is to be able to stay there so she can find him and visit him now though . Any help she can try and put in place wont happen imediately either and until it is in place we are all he has .

One of the people trying to find help has been looking into getting a senior advocate for him too and was supposed to be talking to one about Tony and his situation . Hopefully they can look at him getting his SSI claim started again but it depends if Tony qualifies for their help . We are always trying to come up with other help and we are trying to get him to arrange a visit to his primary doctor too and see if they can put anything in place for him .

Please it is very important for all of this to happen that Tony and Rocky are able to hold onto their room . Now it takes everything Tony has to just get out of bed and move around his room caring for Rocky and seeing to his own needs . Every day this alone seems like more than he has the strength to do and even the simplest task takes so much out of him . Please Tony is only just surviving in a room as it is , if he lost this and was out on the streets it just doesn't bare even thinking about . He truly does only have us to help him hold onto his room and stay off the streets and the fund raiser and the motel room is truly what he has to rely on because of the circumstances he is in . Please if anyone else is able to spare the odd few dollars tonight to help cover their room it truly is what is needed most tonight by them . Thank you so much if you are able to send anything , I know it has got to seem never ending but it is what has been a true life saver and we are trying very hard to find other help too .
OUR SUPPORTERS ARE SO VERY SPECIAL AND AMAZING AND THE REASON TONY AND ROCKY ARE TOGETHER AND ALIVE TODAY ... THANK YOU SO MUCH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR THE PART YOU HAVE PLAYED IN THAT ... EVERY DOLLAR DONATED , EVERY POST SHARED AND EVERY PHONE CALL OR COMMENT OR ANY OTHER HELP GIVEN .. IT TRULY IS ALL APPRECIATED SO MUCH XXX

Please if anyone can help tonight Tony's room is costing him $89 with taxes at the moment and will be $110 plus taxes on Friday and Saturday .Tony can't go back to Premiere Inn yet though and has to try and cover it , so please everyone , I know you will all do your best for him and little Rocky . Please if anyone can donate the best way to do this is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal and send it using the family and friends option so no fees will be taken off what you send . By donating this way you can also send whatever amount you can afford and every dollar received will help Tony and Rocky .
There is also this fund raiser that you can use to donate , but fees will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx . For this reason there is also a minimum donation on there of $10 too .
Sharing the above fund raiser with all your contacts and wherever you can on social media helps get it seen and helps us find new people to donate and is always appreciated too .

THANK YOU SO MUCH ALL OF YOU FOR EVERYTHING , THIS MONTH WE HAVE HAD QUITE A FEW NEW PEOPLE DONATE TO THE FUND RAISER , SO A SPECIAL THANK YOU TONIGHT TO ALL OF YOU , IT HAS BEEN A BIG HELP TO US ALL XXXXXXXXX




UPDATE 14TH JULY

TONY AND ROCKY ARE IN URGENT NEED OF DONATIONS TONIGHT , AS PAYING FOR TOMORROW HAS LEFT LESS THAN $50 IN TONY'S ACCOUNT .. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN .. THANK YOU XX

Hi everyone , first of all huge thank you's going out to Tamra , Liane , Phyllis , Lisa , Kathleen and Colleen for your donations that gave Tony the funds to get to the other hotel safely . Thursday night I went to bed thinking that we'd done it and things were all in place for Tony to get to the other hotel . I'd e mailed with the person from Oxnard and they'd said OK to what Tony needed from them too ... so things were all in place for him to finally get to the other hotel .
Then Friday morning I get up and find an e mail from the person taking Tony to the other hotel saying because of all the changes it doesn't seem legitimate and they will have to pass on this one . The rest of my Friday was spent frantically trying to get some alternative arrangements in place ... with time rapidly running out . A huge thank you to Colleen for your amazing help with all of this too ... here's how she described it in the chat room
God, yes! From the moment Jill opened her eyes on Friday, it was non stop drama! His transport backed out at the last minute, so we had to scramble. We sent numerous text messages and emails and made countless phone calls. Just when Jill thought it was safe to go to her music festival (that she had taken vacation days to attend), an emergency happened with the transporter and they bailed. I called his hotel various times to beg for a few more hours so we could find transport.

Then, when we had tried and failed to find transport, Tony goes offline and we could not reach him.for hours. We had NO IDEA what happened to him. We were frantic.

Then, after Jill's and my Friday was TOTALLY BLOWN, we find out Tony had been moved to the other hotel! Then it took another few hours to find out what happened!

It was such a non stop day of frantic worry and stress and I think Tony may of ended up actually outside with all his things and no transport . He finally managed to get hold of the guy who had been taking him before and he came from wherever he is now and took him .. but it cost Tony extra . As worrying and stressful as it had been for us , we were still safe in our own homes ... its got to have been so much worse for Tony . When I finally did get to talk with Tony the stress of the day just boiled over and we had a big argument to the point where I just felt on Saturday we needed a day away from each other and I stayed away .
So that brings us to today , Tony has been having problems getting his breathing under control which I think has been panic attacks . Is still very dizzy and unwell and says he has to stay away from Premiere Inn for a while after what happened there on Friday . He is going to try and stay where he is if he can , in the week it isn't that much extra staying there , but after paying for tomorrow night he has less than $50 in his account again , so donations are very very urgently needed again tonight . Please help by sending anything at all that you can ... it is vital that we get something in or Tony will not be able to pay for his room and will be on the streets on Tuesday .

Please if anyone can donate anything at all tonight it is a real emergency again and best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .
The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better . There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of this .
Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in . On Thursday Facebook were blocking me from posting the Go Get Funding link at all , saying it went against their community standards ... so if anyone can help spread the word that would be great ... hopefully I can post it tonight but with Facebook one never knows .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX




UPDATE 11TH JULY

VERY VERY URGENT EMERGENCY TONIGHT , TONY STILL NEEDS DONATIONS TO COVER TOMORROW AND THE WEEKEND AHEAD .. PLEASE EVEN JUST $10 WILL HELP IF YOU CAN SPARE IT TONIGHT ... THANK YOU

Hi everyone , I put out one of my emergency appeals earlier on today but no donations have come in and Tony and Rocky still need donations to cover their expenses tomorrow and over the coming weekend too . The only donations we did get were from Mimi and Demetra ... thank you so much both of you for what you managed to send us xx .

I have someone coming to help Tony get to the other hotel in the morning but he still needs to get in at least the $50 to pay them ... and only has enough to cover his room tomorrow night .

Please please this is very very urgent . can anyone else send anything at all tonight ?

Please if anyone can donate anything at all tonight it is a real emergency and best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .


Facebook will not let me post the link to the fund raiser tonight ... saying Go Get Funding goes against community standards ... the fund raiser is still here though if you want to donate this way .

If anyone can share the fund raiser on any social media sites with this message that would be a big help tonight too
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX




UPDATE 10TH JULY

PLEASE EVERYONE , YOUR HELP IS NEEDED AGAIN TONIGHT ... CAN ANYONE SEND A DONATION TONIGHT TO HELP TONY COVER THE OTHER HOTEL WHEN HE GETS THERE TOMORROW ... THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CAN .

Hi everyone , please Tony and Rocky need your help again tonight to stay safe when they get to the other hotel tomorrow . Most of the donation Tony got in before the weekend has been used up and his time at Premiere Inn really is up tomorrow . He can just about cover the cost of paying someone to take him there and his first night in his room when he gets there . After that it will be the weekend rates and its going to cost him at least $100 at the other hotel at the weekend ... Friday and Saturday .. so we need to ask for your help again tonight .

I have found someone who has said they can help Tony but as they are coming from Oxnard they want $50 for helping him . It is the only offer of help that has said they can help though so we are going to have to pay that . Tony has also been having problems with his bank card recently and with his phone charging very slowly . His bank is supposed to be sending him a new card to his PO box and I'm hoping the person coming to help him will take him to collect it . His card had worked up till this morning if the details were put in manually but when he tried to use it locally this morning it wouldn't even work that way , so I am praying he has a way to pay the hotel once he gets there . As you can imagine to say Tony is going out of his mind with worry is an understatement and he is very worried that he wont have funds to cover his room after tomorrow too .

Tony keeps saying he wants to try and go back to Premiere Inn after 2 nights and that would be cheaper there if he could manage that . It would depend on if the person helping him or someone else could take him back though and if he had the funds to pay them another $50 to take him back and funds to cover his room when he gets there . Getting him safely to the other hotel and into his room there and covering his initial 2 nights there needs to be concentrated on before any of that though , and is what we need donations to cover tonight . He has held on at the Premiere Inn , the cheapest hotel as long as he can but has no choice but to leave for at least 2 nights tomorrow . The rest after that will depend on his funds and help being available and also if he is well enough to move again so soon too .
Please if anyone can send anything at all tonight , it is needed again and will help him tremendously over the next couple of days . Thank you all so much for any help you can give xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Please if anyone can donate anything at all tonight it is needed again now and best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .
The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better . There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of this .
Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX



UPDATE 8TH JULY

TONY AND ROCKY UPDATES AND OVERDUE THANK YOU'S

Hi everyone , here are the latest updates from Tony and Rocky and some overdue thank you's . First of all the thank yous ... huge thank you going out to Maria who gave Tony and Rocky their miracle , you truly are a very generous special lady .. thank you so much xxx Thank you's going out to Mimi , Veronica and Tamra too for your donations that also helped Tony stay safe .
Tony found out that the Premiere Inn were giving him longer ... 18 days this time and has been able to stay till Tuesday .. that too has meant his weekend cost him less and was a help to him . We are still trying to find him someone to take him to the other hotel though . We had someone with a van that offered help on an earlier post , when Tony was returning to the Premiere Inn last time , but they are not calling us back . We had the person who has helped before offer that her boyfriend might help ... but again we are waiting to hear back from them too . Also there is someone with a Caravet offered after my earlier appeal and I have e mailed them too just now but waiting to hear from them too . I am not sure what they will want paying either , we are also waiting to hear back from them on that . All this is getting very worrying for Tony and making him extremely anxious even though he should have the move covered financially .
The Motel 6 Tony is using is where he had problems with the manager when his Dad and brother were with him about 6 years ago . We have checked that he is allowed to stay there and they have said yes he can , but Tony is worrying that when the manager sees him he will recognise him and tell him he can't stay . I have told him the problems he had were a very very long time ago and that the manager wouldn't recognise him how he looks now and won't remember the issues they had . Tony insists its the same guy and he won't feel comfortable there and is going to go back to Premiere Inn after 2 nights . I am hoping that when he gets there he finds its actually OK staying there and that he will stay a bit longer there , he is not going to be well enough to go through moving everything after just 2 days there I don't think . It could . in a way , be good if he can cope with moving back after 2 days , because he will be back at the cheaper hotel when the weekend rates start . He does only get 18 nights there though .. so would have to move again in 18 nights rather than staying for the 24 nights he is allowed at Motel 6 ... so its a difficult one to work out and Tony is worrying about having enough funds to get back with after 2 days too , he may just about do it , but it depends if he has to buy food and food for Rocky etc before then too . He is also worrying about who will bring him back after 2 days and funds to pay them too .
So even though Tony has had his miracle happen he is still very stressed and worried about all the arrangements and has been having panic attacks . On both Friday and Saturday he felt so unwell that he went to the hospital again , but both times they just sent him back to his room . He also has heard nothing at all from his social worker and neither have any of us even though we have messaged her at the start of last week . I will try messaging her again tomorrow and will get someone else to as well ... but she doesn't seem to be doing much at all . We will always be trying to find Tony other help too still and will need your support again as Tony's funds run low next week , because at the moment he is using what was donated but nothing is coming in so eventually it will run out if this carries on .
THANK YOU SO MUCH ALL OF YOU FOR EVERYTHING , TRULY FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS . WE DO HAVE SOME AMAZING SPECIAL PEOPLE SUPPORTING US AND IT IS TRULY APPRECIATED ... WE REALLY ARE SO BLESSED . THANK YOU SO MUCH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU XXXX

Of course if anyone wants to send any donations to help the funds Tony has last longer you still can using [email protected] on Pay Pal and choosing the family and friends option when you send it .

You can still also use and share this fund raiser ... and that too will help keep Tony and Rocky safe . https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx

I swear blind there is someone up above that is watching over us ... no matter what Tony thinks about his family having forgot him ... an angel among our supporters always seems to work the miracle he needs when things are looking so impossible and has seemed to watch over me too.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BEING THOSE ANGELS WHO CAN WORK MIRACLES FOR US ... YOU TRULY ARE ALL LIFE SAVERS OVER AND OVER AGAIN XXXX




UPDATE 3RD JULY

TONY AND ROCKY NEED A 4TH OF JULY MIRACLE ... THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CAN DO ANYTHING AT ALL TO HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN
Hi everyone , having major stress and worry from Tony over the coming hotel swap , please please can we try and do the impossible again and get $200 in so arrangements can be made . Thank you so much to Donna and Deborah who are both new donors , thank you so much for your donations you sent . Also a big thank you to Tamra for all your support you give and your donation last night . We managed to cover what Tony paid for his room today ... thank you so much for that .
Tomorrow his room is going to cost him $85 plus taxes ... so at least $100 as its a holiday and the rates go up . On Friday he has to swap to the more expensive hotel and its going to be weekend too and they are charging over $100 a night ... but Tony has no other place to go to . I have had the prices checked online too and yes that is what they are charging . Tony is going to try and stay for just the 2 nights and then head back , but truly I think he is too unwell to manage this now and may need to stay a little longer . I think the thing to concentrate on is getting in the funds to get him there safely and then take it from there once he knows how much of a toll the move has taken on him .
There is still a lot of uncertainty with who is going to take Tony to the other hotel . Tony is worrying that he has nothing to pay them with and saying don't tell them what I'm willing to pay . Whoever is offering to take him though won't agree to take him unless they know what he is going to pay them for doing it , so I need to tell them something . I have tried asking if they would do it for $30 as its just from one hotel to another just down the road ... but they may say its not worth turning out for less than $50 as they might have to come from further away .. so we may have to offer more . I am still waiting to hear back from them .
Once we know where Tony is going to be next week then we can get back onto trying to get his social worker out to him , try and get him to try the shopping group , try and find other help for him and try and get him to his primary care doctor too . Until we know where he is going to be though and for how long it is difficult to do any of this . This week has been a bit of a difficult one for getting help out to him too as its had the holiday in the middle of it ... when everywhere is closed and people helping are trying to fit 5 days work into a 4 day week as it is . We will get back on finding him help again though just as soon as we can .
Please the main thing is to get in this $200 so Tony can feel that he does have the funds he needs to arrange someone to get him to the other hotel and can cover at least his first night there . What he has in his account at the moment will only just cover what his room will cost him tomorrow , so any help you can give tonight will be what will reassure him that he can pay someone to take him to the other hotel and cover his room once he gets there . Then tomorrow and Friday we can move onto covering Saturday and Sunday , then by Saturday he should know if he is heading back on Sunday or needs to stay longer and can cover that . Tony is worrying about not being able to cover staying there 2 nights and getting back after that now , but I know we just can't cover it all now and need to go one step at a time and do it bit by bit and pray that way we can all pull together and work another miracle . Please this truly is a life and death situation , and its your help , everyone that can donating what little bit they can , that will be a true life saver and make that 4th of July miracle happen tonight . Thank you so much everyone that can make that extra effort tonight and donate even just a small amount xxx

Please if anyone can donate anything at all tonight it is urgently needed best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .
The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better . There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of this .
Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX





UPDATE 2ND JULY

VERY URGENT HELP NEEDED TO KEEP TONY AND ROCKY SAFE THROUGH THE 4TH JULY HOLIDAY AND THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND ... PLEASE PLEASE CAN ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE HELP TONIGHT ?

Hi everyone , I wasn't able to post out last night because of my hours at work , but thank you to Kathleen , Mimi , Jeannie , Tamra , Britta , Colleen and Phyllis for your donations the night before that . They covered a couple of nights for Tony which was a big help and meant he was able to cover his room today even though I couldn't post it out last night .
Most of that money has been used up though and Tony needs to cover $70 for his room tomorrow , with Thursday being a holiday it will probably cost him at least $80 which is the weekend rate where he is now . Then on Friday he needs to swap hotels .. at the latest it will be Saturday .. and will have to go to the Motel 6 . This is the next cheapest hotel but it costs considerably more there ... $75 plus taxes in the week and over $100 plus taxes on Friday and Saturday . It is very very frustrating and annoying that Premiere Inn only let him stay 14 days when he should by rights get twice that , but sadly Tony has to stick to their rules if he wants to stay there , so there isn't much he can do about that . I am still hoping he will use the Motel 6 in Thousand Oaks this time and go back to the Premiere Inn after say a week or so . Also I am hoping he will give the shopping service a try too so he can use his food stamps for food . We still have to find another way for him to get from one hotel to the other too and sort out what they would want paying . It has been very hard to discuss anything with Tony this week because of having work every day . When I work in an afternoon , Tony usually comes online just as I have to leave for work , and when I'm on in a morning I cant stay late the night before . With funds getting used up so fast and getting so low I've had to concentrate on trying to get donations in too for a lot of the time . I do still have a few options of transport to the other hotel , just need to find time to discuss with Tony and get him to see it will be OK for him to use one of them .
Please if anyone can donate anything at all tonight it is urgently needed best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .
The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better . There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of this .
Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in .
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX




UPDATE 30TH JUNE

PLEASE CAN ANYONE DONATE ANYTHING AT ALL TODAY ? NOTHING CAME IN LAST NIGHT AND TONY HAS A HOLIDAY AND THE HOTEL SWAP TO CONTEND WITH NEXT WEEK .. ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE WILL BE HUGELY APPRECIATED .. THANK YOU XX
Hi everyone , sadly no one donated anything last night and Tony only has enough left for one more night in his account . He really is giving up on trying to be able to make things work and stay safe through this next week as there is the 4th July holiday and right after that he is going to need to swap hotels again . I will also be away from home on the Friday night , so not sure if I will get online that night . Please if you can send anything at all today it will be a big help and help him keep trying to get things in place so he can stay safe over the holiday and get to the other hotel safely too . At the moment he just sees no donations came in and says what's the point he wont have the money to stay safe anyway ... if we can get some in then it will give him some hope back and help him be able to do what we need him to do in order to stay safe . Also of course he is right if he doesn't have the funds to cover his room and the swap then there is no point because he won't be safe anyway .
We have tried to find local help for him ... there is a shopping scheme that could enable him to use his food stamps but he needs to be in Thousand Oaks to use it and recently he has only been in Thousand Oaks for 2 weeks . Also it means handing his food card over to a group of people he does not know and them keeping it , this is causing great anxiety . We have approached several groups set up to help people but got no where with finding him more permanent help ... we are working on another group helping him ... they saw him about a fortnight ago very briefly but he has heard nothing since , we have tried to chase them up since then but all you get is a recorded voice telling you to leave a message . When Tony goes to hospital that is him asking for help because he just can't cope with everything on his own ,but they just send him back out ... we are desperately trying to find him help . Others are calling too and trying to find help from places like 211 and churches in the area and anything else that might help him . We are trying I promise , but it is difficult because there are so many in need and not enough help to go round . Tony's mental health issues also make things hard , they stop him thinking rationally and keep him from even seeing help as help a lot of the , to him its just something causing him more stress and anxiety . We are trying though I do promise you and the fund raiser is still his life saver until we can get him better help from somewhere .
Because nothing came in last night I need to put out an appeal today and donations are needed urgently or Tony will give up all together and will not be able to cover his room after tomorrow . Please I am praying that maybe some extra people will manage to donate even just $10 today and that we will be able to cover a couple more nights and some food between us all and that this will stop Tony giving up all together . Thank you so much for any help you can give today xxxx

Please if anyone can donate anything at all tonight best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .

The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better . There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of this .

Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in .

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX




UPDATE 27TH JUNE


THANK YOU .. TONY STAYED SAFE ... THE WEEKEND IS COMING THOUGH AND THE PRICES GO UP ... PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP US START TO COVER IT TONIGHT ? THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CAN XXX
Hi everyone , first of all tonight , huge thank you's going out to Tamra , Mimi , Maria , Colleen and Britta for answering my emergency plea and sending in a donation . What we had donated covered Tony up till this weekend thank you so very much xxxx We are now passing the mid week point and heading towards the weekend now so need to start to try and start to get that covered now . Tony also has to pay extra for his room at the weekend .. usually around $100 a night so if we can start to cover it now it will be a big help .
I was able to call the whole person care number myself now I have the better rate for calling the USA . I left a message telling them about Tony having changed rooms and about his mental health needs and about him needing help urgently . You don't get to actually talk to anyone though , just recorded message asking you to leave a voice message . Tony says so far no one has contacted him since the very brief visit he had last week at the other hotel . We will keep chasing it up though .
Tony is still feeling very unwell and still keeps saying he needs to just go in the hospital and die . He keeps telling me over and over that its over and that he has no way to swap hotels now his taxi driver has left . I keep telling him yes we have other ways that have been offered but he keeps seeing reasons for them not working and is very upset over everything and very depressed at the moment again .
Tony has just 10 more days till his next hotel swap ... and I have work every day during those 10 days too ... and then will be away from home overnight again . During that time though I want to talk him into using one of the 3 alternate offers we had as a way to move him and Rocky and his belongings . I need to show him how easy it is to send money to someone using pay pal and that he could use that as a way to pay them .
I also want to try and get him to go to the Motel 6 in Thousand Oaks this time rather than the one in Camarillo ... its closer and if he stays in Thousand Oaks he can try using the shopping scheme . He is reluctant though because years ago when he stayed there with his dad and brother , there was a misunderstanding that led to them being put on the do not rent list . I have told him we have checked for him before and he can stay there now , but he says its still the same manager and he is reluctant to go there again .
If I can get him to use that Motel 6 then as I said above I want to look into him using the shopping scheme as a way to use his food stamps . He has issues with it though because it means handing his food card over to total strangers and them keeping it .. he sees it as them taking his food card off him .
I also am trying to get him to go back to see his primary doctor and tell him how unwell he feels , that he feels like he should be in hospital and about his visits to hospital when they keep just sending him back out again . I'm hoping that his doctor might also discuss taking his medication with him too and that if he too feels Tony needs to be in hospital he might be able to get him admitted to a ward . If not then maybe he can arrange some carers to visit Tony or something and give him some practical help . I did ask if he would let me call his doctors office for him but he said no ... so I don't think he will let me .

All of this is things I want to try and work on with him , but keeping his room covered is vital to it all too . If hes worrying about his room too he won't be able to deal with these extra things I am trying to talk to him about and just gets upset and frustrated . The time difference .. 8 hours makes things hard especially when I have work every day and there will be some evenings where I get very little time online .. and earlier on in my day its the middle of the night over there . I will do my very best to make time though and to persuade him and talk with him about it all . If he gets overwhelmed and upset though when your trying to discuss extra things he will just go offline and then the communication is lost all together .. so it can be very difficult because of that too . I will try though and your help and support whilst I do is very much appreciated I promise too . I can't do any of this without that .. your support is so vital to everything .. if Tony loses his room he will lose everything and just literally give up and wait to die on some street corner , he is only just hanging on now as it is . Thank you so much for all your past help and for any help you can give tonight too XXX

Please if anyone can donate anything at all tonight best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .

The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better . There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of this .

Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in .

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX




UPDATE 24TH JUNE

EMERGENCY APPEAL .. NOTHING DONATED LAST NIGHT .. TONY NEEDS DONATIONS TO STAY SAFE TOMORROW ... PLEASE HELP .. EVEN $10 COULD BE A LIFE SAVER TONIGHT .. THANK YOU XX

Hi everyone , After having a wonderful weekend I now have to come try and keep Tony and Rocky safe . I was not able to post it out Friday and Saturday because of the wedding and nothing came in last night . This means that Tony only has $20 left in his account after paying for today and if nothing comes in tonight he will be in the streets tomorrow . At the moment he is paying around $80 for his room a night and is desperate for something to eat and drink too which costs around $20 a time to be delivered to his room . Please even if anyone can only send $10 tonight it could be a real life saver to Tony . Thank you so much tonight for any help you are able to give xxxx

please if you can help tonight send your donation using [email protected] via Pay Pal and use the family and friends option so no fees are taken off . As you can imagine Tony is out of his mind with worry and terrified about what tomorrow could hold . Thank you everyone so much for all your past support and being a life saver to them so many times before , praying some of you can help again tonight and very scared myself about what will happen if no one can . Anything at all will be so gratefully received tonight ... thank you xxx

Please can everyone seeing this share it everywhere you can tonight please ... thank you xx




UPDATE 17TH JUNE

DONATIONS ARE VERY URGENTLY NEEDED STILL ... 250 IS NEEDED BY THE TIME TONY HAS TO CHECK OUT ON THURSDAY .. PLEASE HELP TONIGHT IF YOU CAN .. THANK YOU
Hi everyone , thank you to Tamra , Mimi and Amanda for your donations last night . They almost covered another night for Tony , but he also had to pay out for tonight this morning and still only has $80 left in his account . He needs to have funds to cover tomorrow night , the taxi and Thursday night ... $250 ... before he checks out on Thursday and then will need to cover Friday , Saturday and Sunday too .. another $250 ... and I don't know how much I will get online for after Thursday as its the weekend my daughter gets married so will be busy with that Friday evening and all day Saturday . I need everyone to please remember , even if no e mails go out , that we need to cover all of this and donations will be very urgently needed .
Today all Tony has been able to do is keep saying how hes stranded and got no way out of the hotel . We have found another taxi firm that says they can take him and Rocky and all his belongings . Tony rang them and spoke with them and every time hes said that I keep reminding him of that . He is very stressed and keeps wanting the number so he can check again with them .. I have the number though and have told him when he needs to book it I will give it to him .. but he does not need to call them yet . He is very very anxious and nervous and stressed over this though .
He also said the other hotel is showing as sold out ... I told him he needs to call them and ask to make a reservation for Thursday ... I don't know if he has yet though . That is also getting him very upset and worried and anxious . I may have to get my team on that once we have some funds in to get him there .

The person from whole person care also called to see him yesterday , but very briefly . Tony was very anxious to let them know he was not willing to give Rocky up and the lady said yes she understood that . She said she would see what help they could give him and left . Tony doesn't feel they will give him anything but we will have to see what happens in the next week or two .

Right now more than anything before he can book his taxi and make a reservation at the hotel Tony needs to get at least another $200 into his account , and then will need the $250 to cover him through the coming weekend too . A big ask I know but its what the hotels will be charging him and what he will have to pay out to keep off the streets . Please please don't let him lose his room .. not this weekend .. when its such a huge weekend for me and I can't be here to sort it out . You have all been so amazing so many times before ... please please I pray you can all be here again this weekend .... so many get my e mail and are tagged in my posts and share my posts .. please can all of you just send that $10 ... I know it seems a lot to ask for but you all each sending $10 and we will have it .. just $10 so I can enjoy the wedding and so Tony and Rocky will be safe ? THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES AND SO MUCH IF YOU CAN HELP AND DO THIS FOR US THIS WEEKEND XXXX

Please if anyone can donate anything at all tonight best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .

The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better . There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of this .

Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in .

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX



UPDATE 11TH JUNE

THINGS DIDN'T GO AS PLANNED TODAY , WILL KNOW MORE TOMORROW ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN ... THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

Hi everyone , thank you so much to Donna , Kathleen , Kent and Mary for your donations last night . This meant we got in the funds Tony needed but there were other issues that meant he wasn't able to swap hotels today . Firstly his taxi driver let him know that his car had broke down and was going to be in the garage today . Tony also felt very unwell last night had stomach pains and was hardly able to move again so went back to the hospital last night . They did the same as last time though and said there had been no change in him and put him in a taxi back to the hotel again . So this has all meant the hotel swap didn't happen today and Tony paid for tonight at the same hotel . He also ordered a pizza to be delivered too as it was several days since he ate and has asked tonight if we can at least get in about $50 towards covering what hes had to pay out today for his room and the pizza .

Tony is still trying to get to the other hotel and still has a reservation that he just pushed back . He has been trying to call his taxi guy to check if he can take him before he goes on holiday , but has been getting no reply . He is very worried because he can hardly move and is very unsteady and dizzy still . He will need the help of his taxi guy to load and unload his belongings and if his room isn't available when he gets there he may have to try somewhere else because of this . Also he is very nervous about there being a new manager at the premiere Inn that he has never met and who doesn't know him , meeting new people is always a big worry for Tony .

Tomorrow I should know more about what is happening , hopefully his taxi guy can get him and take him tomorrow and they will have a room for him to go into when he gets there . If not tomorrow then hopefully on Thursday , or hes going to be hit with the crazy charges at the weekend again but there is some uncertainty about it still too , until Tony can speak to his taxi guy . Please keep everything crossed that things fall into place and go smoothly and understand that Tony really is doing the best he can when he is feeling very unwell at the moment . We are still trying to get help in place too , its taking time and isn't at all easy but we are trying I promise . Every day he has to stay where he is eats into what funds he has managed to get in for the move though and he is going to need to keep his room covered when he gets to the other hotel too . This means he will need everyone's help and anything at all anyone can spare will help ... lots of very small donations can help just as much as one larger one , if people can manage to send something . Thank you so much if you can manage that and if you can't then thank you for all your efforts you make sharing the fund raiser so others might see it who can donate . All your efforts are appreciated and we thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts .

Please if anyone can help us get this extra $50 in the very best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .

The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better .

Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in .

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT WE CAN NEVER THANK ALL OF YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP XXX



UPDATE 9TH JUNE

URGENT CRISIS ..TONY VERY UNWELL BUT THE PRICES GOING UP MEANS HE IS TRYING TO GET BACK TO THE CHEAPER HOTEL ON TUESDAY , HE NEEDS FUNDS TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS THOUGH ... PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP

Hi everyone , nothing else was donated after my appeal last night , I know a lot of you had already donated and thank you so much for that ... it truly is appreciated . Tony paid $86 plus taxes today which brought the cost to over $100 and they are putting the prices up to that during the week now where Tony is at the moment . Tony is trying to get back to the premiere inn , his taxi driver goes on holiday for a week later on this week , and the hotel had no rooms till Tuesday . Hes made a reservation for Tuesday and booked his taxi , but at the moment can only just scrape together enough to cover tomorrow night where he is now .. so needs to try and get in another $200 to cover his room and the taxi back to the other hotel on Tuesday . The other hotel is cheaper ... but their prices have gone up since he was there last and are now $70 plus taxes ... and the time hes allowed there has gone from 18 days to just 14 ... Tony is doing his very best though and feels so like hes trying to overcome such impossible circumstances and truly doesn't know if he can but is trying to .

Please everyone one thing for sure is without us he will be in the streets after tomorrow , this is still very very urgent and a real crisis . There really is no wonder Tony keeps saying to me he can't do this any more and that its over and hes going to die in the streets really soon . In spite of that and how unwell he feels he has made the reservation and booked his taxi and is trying still . Please can we also keep trying to cover what he needs us to and also not give up on keeping him and Rocky in a room ? Can we help him to keep doing what seems so impossible ? I truly hope we can and will be on getting help to him tomorrow too . Thank you so much for any help you can give during this new crisis Tony is faced with and to everyone for all your amazing help in the past .. we really really need your help again now xxxx

Please if you can send anything at all tonight it will help and the very best way to send it is to use [email protected] on pay pal choosing the family and friends option when its sent . Every dollar will count and by sending it this way no fees will be taken from it .

The fund raiser link is ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx if anyone really would rather use that , but if you donate that way , for every $10 donated Tony only gets $9 once pay pal and the fund raiser have taken their fees from it . That is why donating through Pay Pal is better .

Sharing the fund raiser with your contacts and everywhere you can does help others see it though and is always appreciated as it can help get extra donations in .

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR WHATEVER HELP YOU CAN GIVE DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS , THIS IS SO IMPORTANT AND WE CAN NEVER THANK YOU ENOUGH XXX




UPDATE 7TH JUNE

PLEASE IS ANYONE ELSE ABLE TO HELP TONY AND ROCKY ... $75 NEEDED TONIGHT TO MAKE SURE THEY STAY SAFE ON SUNDAY ..THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE XXX

Hi everyone , have had a couple of early starts so had to leave early and hadn't posted , but thank you's are overdue to Kathleen , Britta , Phyllis, Mimi , Kent . Liane and Laurie ... and to those who donated to the Facebook fund raiser .. the first main payment also went into Tony's account . All of you meant Tony and Rocky stayed safe up to now and were able to pay for tonight and tomorrow night this morning . Thank you all so very very much for being there when Tony needed you . The hotels really are making things so difficult for Tony and I truly don't know what on earth he would do if it wasn't for all your help you give , please know how much we appreciate it .

This weekend the hotels have put their prices up to crazy levels again ... and said its for 4 days not just the usual 2 days !!!! The trouble is even though they do that they are still selling out , so whilst people will pay it , they will make the most of demand and charge crazy amounts . Sadly Tony gets caught right up in all of it but really has little choice but to try and cover what they are asking . With no income of his own there is really no way he can try and find other housing options and just trying to survive and hold on takes everything he has . He has no energy left and is too unwell to cope with even making phone calls or answering questions and has no help at the moment either . We do have a couple of places we can try to contact for help next week though , and Tony is still saying he may go back to the hospital again too . Just trying to keep Tony from giving up has taken so much time and effort this week and he is very down again now with the cost of his room having gone up so much . He is extremely worried and scared especially with what happened just before the holiday weekend , when the other hotel told him he had to check out because they were sold out . That is why he is trying to pay for his room ahead over this weekend if he can . This means he would need to pay for Sunday tomorrow , but needs to get in another $75 tonight to be able to do this . Tony has been so worried about his room that he has not eaten anything very much at all for at least a week now ... maybe even 10 days . He has said he ordered a sandwich tonight and some coke to drink ... but that's not much when hes had virtually nothing to eat for so long . Please help if you can tonight so he will be able to pay for Sunday in the morning and won't have to risk being told to leave because they are sold out like at the last place . Thank you again to all of you for everything and for any help you are able to give tonight xxx

If anyone is able to donate tonight the best way is to use [email protected] on pay pal and send it using the family and friends option .
There is also this fund raiser you can use to donate too but a fee will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it if you send it this way ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx
There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of that too .
Sharing the fund raiser can also help us get donations in and is always appreciated too ... thank you so much everyone who does this for us xxx
THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING AND FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT XXXX





UPDATE 4TH JUNE


VERY VERY URGENT APPEAL .. DONATIONS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED TONIGHT .. WHEN TONY PAYS FOR TOMORROW IT WILL USE ALMOST ALL HIS FUNDS UP ... PLEASE HELP TONIGHT IF YOU CAN .. THANK YOU

Hi everyone , last night I wasn't able to post the fund raiser out and the night before we only got one donation in .. thank you Tamra . The 2 nights before that I had not been able to post it out either , which means Tony's funds are getting very low again now . Once he pays for tomorrow night he will have less than $50 left in his account so donations are very urgently needed as his room is costing him $75 a night .

Tony had been very down over the weekend , seeming to have given up all together , but tonight did seem a little bit better and has asked me to make sure we get at least $60 in . He is still very unwell and exhausted and his mobility is still very bad but his mental state did seem a little bit better today . I am still not sure how long its been since he ate or what hes managed to eat , but it must be about a week since he last told me he had ordered a pizza in . I am hoping he has managed to get something in him , even just the odd bag of potato chips or cookie , or has got some food in but just not mentioned it , but I also fear he may of gone many days with nothing or very little to eat too . I keep telling him he does need to eat ... but he doesn't see food as nutrition that keeps the body alive .. he sees it as things that are nice to eat or things that are horrible and says the money has to go to the room and he doesn't need to eat . Over the weekend he had kept saying that he just didn't want to be here and to pray that he died all the time , but there hasn't been any of that today which makes me think he is doing a bit better ... he doesn't seem quite as mixed up today either . I am hoping that means his depression has lifted a bit now and he is ready to start trying again . He has just said if we get some donations in tonight then he will order something to eat ... so if anyone can help tonight .. that would be a worry taken off my mind as well as helping Tony and Rocky stay safe in their room . Thank you all so much for any help you are able to give xxxx

Please if you can manage it the very best way to help is by sending a donation , even if its only $5 or $10 ... it will be better than not donating and will help i promise you . If you are able to send anything the best way is to use [email protected] on Pay Pal and choose the family and friends option . By donating this way there is no minimum amount and no fees will be taken from your donation before Tony gets it . Thank you so much for any donation you can make xxx

There is also the following fund raiser too https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx where a lot more information can be found and updates are regularly posted too .. scroll down the main page or see the updates tab . There are also more photos of Tony and Rocky on there , you can see how Tony has deteriorated over recent years from those too . If you donate this way though both the fund raiser and Pay Pal will take a fee from your donation ... for every $10 donated Tony gets $9 roughly . For this reason there is a minimum donation of $10 on there too . Donations made this way will help though and we thank anyone who is able to donate this way too xxx

Sharing my posts and getting the fund raiser out on social media is always a big help , especially sharing and posting it on other social networks like twitter and posting it in groups and pages on Facebook . This helps it get seen by new people who hopefully might be able to make a donation or share it even further for us . Thank you so much if you can help in this way xxx

YOUR SUPPORT AND DONATIONS TRULY DO MEAN SO MUCH TO TONY AND LITTLE ROCKY , ESPECIALLY WHEN THEIR FUNDS ARE RUNNING LOW LIKE TONIGHT . WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT THEY TRULY WOULD HAVE NO WHERE TO GO AND NO ONE TO TURN TO FOR HELP AND WOULD BE OUT ON THE STREETS . IF THAT HAPPENED ROCKY WOULD HAVE TO BE RE HOMED AND TONY WOULD LOSE EVERYTHING AND NEVER SURVIVE LONG OUT ON THE STREETS .. HE STRUGGLES TO COPE NOW . YOUR HELP AND DONATIONS ARE A LIFE LINE TO THEM AND REALLY ARE WHAT KEEPS THEM SAFE WHILST WE TRY AND FIND THEM OTHER HELP .. THERE IS A TEAM OF US WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO DO THAT . THANK YOU SO MUCH ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND EVERYTHING ELSE FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS XXXX


UPDATE 2ND JUNE

PLEASE EVERYONE READ THE POST BELOW ... TONY HAS BEEN BACK AT THE HOSPITAL , I WAS HOPING HE WOULD STAY THERE BUT THEY SAID THEY COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG , THAT HE WAS OK AND SENT HIM BACK TO THE HOTEL , I WILL POST A PHOTO HE SENT FROM THE HOSPITAL IN THE COMMENTS THOUGH .. YOU LOOK AND TELL ME .. DOES HE EVEN LOOK OK ? i HAVE NOT POSTED FOR A COUPLE OF NIGHTS DUE TO WORKING , SO CAN ANYONE HELP WITH A DONATION TONIGHT ? TONY REALLY IS FINDING IT SO HARD TO KEEP TRYING , AND IS VERY VERY CLOSE TO GIVING UP ALL TOGETHER . THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CAN .

Please everyone , I know its long but read what is below ... I have tried to explain why this is so hard and why I do what I do .

Hi everyone , sorry for not updating the last couple of days .. have been doing night shifts at work . Firstly I need to say some overdue thank yous to our supporters ... thank you to Laura , Mimi and Tamra for your donations . Also the Facebook fund raiser has now finished but want to say thank you to Debbie , Lisa , Maria , Linda , Renee and Mimi for donating to that . It has now closed and the funds raised will be with Tony later this coming week . Thank you ALL of you so much and to everyone sharing my posts and those working behind the scenes in the chat group too .

Tony has found it really hard to keep going this last weekend , has not eaten for 4 or 5 days and not drank much either . He has been very depressed and kept saying he just wants to die and to pray that he dies . We did get him to phone the shopping service and he talked to the guy , but its not as readily available where he is now , so he might have to wait till hes back at the other hotel . The problem is at the other hotel , hes only there for 2 weeks at a time , and he still isn't keen on letting them have his EBT card . I was hoping if I could get him to try it for just a couple of weeks he might find it does help him and he would carry on with it , If he can only use it at the other hotel though I think its not going to help much after all .

It is so very difficult to find Tony the help he needs and get him to see how it could help him . The big problem is Tony's mental health is not good and no one is trying to give him any help with this . It very often keeps him from seeing things that could help him as help . He thinks of it as more problems .. more stress when hes already stressed to his limits and that blocks him from seeing the help it could give him . Tony cant see that there is any way for anything to get better for him and just wants more than anything to give up and die . There is a team of us trying to find him help ... but when we find someone .. it is a real battle to get him to see its something that could help him even and when he does not welcome the help being offered .. people move on and close his case or say they can't help . If he could get help for his mental health issues then he would more easily see help as help and be able to work with those offering it . It is very difficult though to get him that help ... social.workers and staff in the hospital when he goes etc don't seem to even see that he needs that help first and just walk away when he cant see what they are offering as help or say they can't find anything wrong with him so its very difficult . Dealing with him day to day and knowing him like I do , seeing how horribly his health and mental and emotional well being has suffered over the years it is so obvious he is very unwell and very ill and desperately needs help from somewhere .
Take today for example ... he went to the hospital because he was feeling so horribly dizzy and nauseous and ill ... and they did some sort of tests and they came back saying they couldn't find anything wrong and he was OK so could leave and hes back in his room trying to cope on his own again . He hasn't eaten for 4 or 5 days , not drank much , his blood pressure is permanently sky high , every time he does eat his stomach gets horribly upset and things just pass through his system without any goodness being able to be absorbed , he has non stop really bad dizzy headaches , he cant walk without a frame and has had falls even with his frame and daren't walk outside his room ... he cant shower because he fears falling , he cant shave because his hand shakes too much , hes having to throw away clothing because of accidents , he cant get to do laundry . he has mental health problems that keep him from getting help or thinking rationally , and has very bad depression to the point that he just wants to give up totally and wait to die . All that long list is Tony and how he is .. just looking at the photoi he sent me you can see he looks unwell and is that list above really someone that is OK ? He goes to the hospital though and they say we cant find anything wrong your OK you can leave and go back to trying to survive . That is what we are up against and why its so hard for Tony to get help .

I really do worry that if he doesn't get help Tony could be dead soon . I do think if his depression got really bad he maybe would just not eat and drink and I cant force him to eat or drink . We can try and find him the help he needs , but I cant make him see it as help if his mind will only see it as more problems . If the worst did happen then we would get Rocky safe and do have a plan to do that in place . I dread to think how I would be , but I would also know that it was what Tony had wanted for such a very very long time . I know dying is not what worries Tony but that dying on the streets alone on some corner at the mercy of whatever evil might be out there terrifies him . I see what happens to homeless people out on the streets and how they get horribly abused , set on fire and attacked . One thing I can do is try and keep that from happening to him , try and make sure that if he does die it is in a bed , in a place he feels safe . That is why I do what I do and what I ask you to all help me do ... and thank all of you with all my heart that do help me do this ... I truly can't put into words what it means to me xxxx

If anyone is able to donate tonight the best way is to use [email protected] on pay pal and send it using the family and friends option .

There is also this fund raiser you can use to donate too but a fee will be taken off your donation before Tony gets it if you send it this way ..https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx
There is also a $10 minimum donation on there because of that too .

Sharing the fund raiser can a;so help us get donations in and is always appreciated too ... thank you so much everyone who does this for us xxx

THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING AND FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT XXXX



but we are all still trying to . At one point we had a way to get Rocky to Colleen too , the problem was whilst Tony thought he was going to be allowed out at any time he wouldn't agree to Rocky going over 2 hours away . In reality too it wouldn't of been any good Colleen taking him for Tony to come out the next day and want him returning to him . None of us knew how long they intended to keep Tony in hospital , we all knew he needed to be there , but none of us knew if he would either stay in or if they would allow him to stay in . If someone could of said yes hes going to rehab for a few weeks and wont be coming out then Tony would probably of been happier with him going to Colleen and we would of known it would of been worth him going there . We did also try and get in touch with the rescue that had agreed to someone local taking Rocky last time too but were waiting to hear back from them . When I e mailed the social worker I also asked her if she could find out how long Tony would be there too .

Right now the important thing is Tony needs to hold onto his room and have food and something to drink . I tell him to drink the tap water but he says its horrible and tastes like sewage . Someone sent me information about people on the medical insurance that are disabled being able to have non medical help in their place of residence .. which I asked the social worker about too . Whether this would be available to Tony in a hotel room I don't know though and there could be questions asked about where he gets money from for a room too . If anyone can help out with something for Tony to eat and drink that would also be great . I will talk to him again about the shopping scheme , but he sees handing his food card over to them as being a problem . He used to be able to use it to but a pizza when he was able to walk short distances and get it cooked in the shop . When I told him about the scheme he was worrying it would mean he wouldn't have it to use for things like that . Yes I know , irrelevant now because he can't walk there , but in Tony's confused mixed up mind he sees it as creating more issues and problems for him rather than helping him .. I will keep trying though . Until then Tony desperately needs help with food and drink though or he will get malnourished and dehydrated , which is most likely what out him in hospital this time . Yes I did tell the social worker that too but she had told me in a previous reply that theirs is only a temporary help service .. so sounds like they will only help for a short time and with Tony not being the most co operative .. well they might not want to keep trying ... it is very very hard . If anyone can help out wioth any food or drinks please let me know .. thank you xxx

If anyone else can make even just a small donation tonight please use [email protected] on Pay Pal and send it choosing the family and friends option . This will mean Tony will get the full donation you make with no fees coming out of it and that you can donate less than the $10 minimum on the fund raiser .
There is also this fund raiser where past updates can be found and lots of other information and photos ... https://goget.fund/2AT4ILx but if you donate that way a fee will be taken off by both the fund raiser and Pay Pal too and for that reason there is also a $10 minimum donation .
If anyone can share this with their contacts or post on any social media sites to try and get some new people seeing it that would be great . Sharing on Facebook is always appreciated and posting in groups and on pages on there is always a great help too . Thank you so much to all of you who already share it for us xxx
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE TONIGHT




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I am a caring person who likes to help where I can . I especialy like to advocate for those in need both human and animal .

I am a caring person who likes to help where I can . I especialy like to advocate for those in need both human and animal .

Donors

  • Stacey Meaney
  • Donated on Oct 13, 2019
  • Tony praying you feel better soon I hope this takes a little of the edge off Keep your little buddy safe Stacey

$20.00
  • Stacey Meaney
  • Donated on Aug 17, 2019
  • Hope this brings you some relief

$20.00
  • grace soto
  • Donated on Aug 16, 2019
$15.00
Sep 13

UPDATE 12 TH SEPTEMBER ... HELP IS NEEDED NOW TO GET THE WEEKEND COVERED .. THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 02:26 am

TONY NEEDS TO GET THIS COMING WEEKEND COVERED ASAP AND HAS HAD THE AMBULANCE OUT TO HIM TODAY .. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN .. THANK YOU XXHi everyone , thank you to Britta , Tamra , Amanda , Maria and Mimi for your donations on Tuesday , following my. . . . .

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Aug 23

UPDATE 23RD AUGUST... URGENT EMERGENCY PLEASE HELP TONY SURVIVE IN WHATEVER WAY YOU CAN .. THANK YOU

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 11:03 pm

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN ... TONY HAS NO FUNDS TO COVER TOMORROW NIGHT .. DONATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE XXXFirstly let me say a huge thank you to Maria for keeping Tony and Rocky safe whilst I have been on my night shifts. . . . .

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Aug 23

UPDATE 23RD AUGUST... URGENT EMERGENCY PLEASE HELP TONY SURVIVE IN WHATEVER WAY YOU CAN .. THANK YOU

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 11:03 pm

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN ... TONY HAS NO FUNDS TO COVER TOMORROW NIGHT .. DONATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE XXXFirstly let me say a huge thank you to Maria for keeping Tony and Rocky safe whilst I have been on my night shifts. . . . .

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Aug 18

TONY AND ROCKY NEED $50 TO STAY SAFE TOMORROW AND THEN NEED TO COVER THEIR ROOM AFTER THAT .. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN .. THANK YOU X

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 06:24 pm

TONY AND ROCKY NEED $50 TO STAY SAFE TOMORROW NIGHT .. PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP WITH THIS AND COVERING THE REST OF NEXT WEEK TONIGHT ... EVEN JUST $10 COULD HELP.. THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CANHi everyone , , Tony made it to Premiere Inn yesterday although he. . . . .

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Aug 17

EXTREMELY URGENT ,TONY HEADED TO THE CHEAPER HOTEL BUT HAS NOTHING IN HIS ACCOUNT AFTER PAYING FOR TONIGHT PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN THANK YOU

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 06:33 pm

PLEASE HELP TONY GET THE $80 HE NEEDS TO COVER TOMORROW NIGHT ... HE IS TRYING TO GET TO PREMIERE INN TODAY BUT ONLY HAS JUST ENOUGH MONEY TO COVER TONIGHT AND IS VERY SCARED HE COULD BE IN THE STREETS AFTER THAT ... THIS IS VERY URGENT , THANK. . . . .

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Aug 16

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP GET IN THE $120 THAT IS STILL NEEDED TO GET TONY TO THE OTHER HOTEL SAFELY ? THANK YOU

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 11:45 am

PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP US GET THE LAST OF WHAT IS NEEDED IN FOR TONY AND ROCKY , THEY NEED IT BEFORE THEY CHECK OUT ON SATURDAY .. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE XXXHi everyone , just sending a quick one of these out now. . . . .

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Aug 16

URGENT EMERGENCY ... PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN TONIGHT

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 01:33 am

PLEASE EVERYONE READ THIS TONIGHT AND HELP IF YOU CAN ... EVEN $10 COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE . HELP URGENTLY NEEDED TONIGHT SO TONY AND ROCKY WILL BE SAFE TOMORROW .. THEY STILL NEED $60 TO COVER THEIR ROOM AND AS ILL AS TONY IS , THEY WILL STILL. . . . .

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Aug 05

TONY & ROCKY HAVE SOMEONE THAT IS GOING TO HELP THEM GET SSI & A PLACE TO LIVE TOGETHER BUT THEY NEED TO STAY SAFE TILL HELP IS FOUND PLEASE HELP

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 12:11 am

URGENT , NOTHING CAME IN LAST NIGHT AND TONY NEEDS $50 TO COVER TOMORROW , ALSO PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP US GET FUNDS IN TO GET TONY TO THE CHEAPER HOTEL ... AND KEEP THIS WEEK IN HIS ROOM COVERED ... THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE XXHi. . . . .

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Aug 02

ABSOLUTE DESPERATE EMERGENCY ... WE HAVE FOUND TONY HELP BUT HE IS ABOUT TO LOSE HIS ROOM AND WILL LOSE THE HELP WE HAVE FOUND .

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 06:59 pm

EXTREMELY URGENT EMERGENCY .... TONY HAS NOTHING YET TOWARDS COVERING TOMORROW ( SATURDAY ) AND NEEDS TO PAY FOR IT TONIGHT TO STAY SAFE ... PLEASE PLEASE HELP ... DONATIONS NEEDED EXTREMELY URGENTLY !!!!Hi everyone ... this is extremely desperate and an extreme emergency ... please help if you can. . . . .

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Aug 02

ABSOLUTE DESPERATE EMERGENCY ... WE HAVE FOUNF TONY HELP BUT HE IS ABOUT TO LOSE HIS ROOM AND WILL LOSE THE HELP WE HAVE FOUND .

Update posted by Jill Ashmore at 06:57 pm

EXTREMELY URGENT EMERGENCY .... TONY HAS NOTHING YET TOWARDS COVERING TOMORROW ( SATURDAY ) AND NEEDS TO PAY FOR IT TONIGHT TO STAY SAFE ... PLEASE PLEASE HELP ... DONATIONS NEEDED EXTREMELY URGENTLY !!!!Hi everyone ... this is extremely desperate and an extreme emergency ... please help if you can. . . . .

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Donors & Comments

66 donors
  • Stacey Meaney
  • Donated on Oct 13, 2019
  • Tony praying you feel better soon I hope this takes a little of the edge off Keep your little buddy safe Stacey

$20.00
  • Stacey Meaney
  • Donated on Aug 17, 2019
  • Hope this brings you some relief

$20.00
  • grace soto
  • Donated on Aug 16, 2019
$15.00
$10.00
  • Guest
  • Donated on Jul 17, 2019
$10.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Jul 17, 2019
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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Jul 03, 2019
$20.00
$20.00
  • Guest
  • Donated on Jun 27, 2019
$25.00
  • Candice Jenkins
  • Donated on Jun 20, 2019
  • Please help this beautiful family

$100.00
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